Follow-up to Toxic gas emission from transponder (lithium batteries)

  • Safety Flash
  • Published on 1 September 2003
  • Generated on 17 March 2026
  • IMCA SF 11/03
  • 1 minute read

Further to the information provided in safety flash 01/03 (Follow-up to Toxic gas emission from transponder (lithium batteries)), Kongsberg Simrad has now updated its transponder safety information. 

This can be found at kongsberg-simrad.com by following ‘Products’, ‘Transponders’ then ‘Battery Safety’.

Users of alternative systems are advised to contact their own suppliers for product-specific information.

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