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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• Three new ESTA standards projects.
• “Be Scene - Be Heard” chat app and “Find a Therapist”.
• ANSI Seeks Comments on Contactless Delivery International Workshop Agreement.
• WTO Technical Barrier to Trade notifications: cloth face masks in Peru; industrial fans in the USA; carcinogenic, mutagenic, reproductive toxicants in the EU; respiratory protection in Kuwait: and radio equipment EMC in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews due 8 June 2020: lock-out/tag-out; and power outlets, now with GFCI and GFPE.
• Final actions on American National Standards from the NFPA: active shooter/hostile event response; flame effects; and evaluating unlabeled electrical equipment.
• Draft IEC & ISO documents: smart manufacturing; eight standards about SQL; machinery safety; reusing secondary cells and batteries; industrial communications networks; code for colours; green tea vocabulary; and network cabling physical security.
• Recently published IEC & ISO documents: engaging people; EMC; software lifecycle profiles, additive manufacturing; hotel service; brazing metals; analog disk recording; low-voltage switchgear; and lithium batteries.
• TSP meeting schedule, now with meetings!
• TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with a new supporter from China.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.