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This Allied Publication defines a method for determination of smoke generation for a material, under three sets of specified laboratory conditions. The procedure is based on ISO 5659-2:2006 and as such describes an experimental method for measuring smoke production from specimens of the material, using a single chamber test. This is supplemented to include detailed requirements for specimen preparation for particular types of material, additional details for test and calibration procedures to enhance repeatability and reproducibility and data presentation, including an additional (optional) parameter, VOF4 (see Sect 10.4) that provides a measure of the early smoke generation by the specimen.