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Hazardous cargo regulations are to be introduced in 2013 to ensure safe carriage of lithium batteries.
Dave Brennan, the International Air Transport Association's (IATA's) assistant director for cargo safety standards, said that such batteries 'had become so ubiquitous' that manufacturers of products such as smart gas and electricity meters now were actually carrying hazardous goods, sometimes without realising it.
The new rules will demand more-accurate cargo declarations and improve the information available to flight crews, speeding their reaction times if incidents occur.
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