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

News items in this issue include:

• ANSI acronym glossary online.
• An ESTA standard published, two more approved.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: USA toxic chemicals in consumer products; Indonesian industrial products; and mercury in products in Canada.
• ANSI public reviews: BOMA building measurement; twisted-pair cabling in industrial premises and telecom infrastructure; leakage current; IEC/ISO cybersecurity and privacy; analyzing skeletal trauma in forensic anthropology; managed fall protection programs; standards-specific ontology; oxyacetylene cutting steel; and a UL standard for network-connectable products cybersecurity.
• DIN public review: Tonwiedergabe im digitalen Kino.
• New ANS projects: wooden, plastic, and metal portable ladders; risk assessment; and industrial robots.
• Final actions on ANSs: rigging event safety; ecodesign for power drive systems; safety code for elevator and escalators; treestand fall arrest systems; facility emergency action plans; field flame test for textiles and films; guide for premises security; protection of historic structures; safety for surge protective devices; safety for emergency lighting and power equipment; IoT cybersecurity; and the governance implications of the use of artificial intelligence by organizations.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: cable networks for TV and sound; adjustable speed electrical power drive systems; 12 Fieldbus standards; AV safety requirements; IoT data exchange; networked standby power consumption of edge equipment; and engineered bamboo products.
• Recently published IEC & ISO docs: DALI emergency lighting; and two emergency management standards.
• TSP meeting schedule, now with fewer meetings!
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.