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

News items in this issue include:

• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: Equipment for use outdoors in the EU; Flux-xore solder wire, and hand tools in India; Toy, look-a-like, and imitation firearms in the USA; Small off-road engines in California (SORES Amendments); Strengthening U.S. leadership and competitiveness in international technical standards development.
• ANSI public reviews: Power-handling capabilities of ICT cable assemblies; Penetration fire stop fire test standards; Description and measurement of environmental sound; Optical isolators, effects of head-worn devices on direct sound localization, and methods for manual pure-tone audiometry; Hearing assistance devices; lots 'o tests for electrical connectors; Updated standard for Program Management; Existing elevators and escalators safety code updates; Machinery and equipment welding; Electric generators; Four immersive media-related draft standards; Power systems for supplying commercial and industrial facility lighting.   
• CSA public review: Portable power cables, and welded steel construction.
• New ANS projects: Seven new ESTA standards projects; Optical and electrical measurements for LED sources; Parametric variations in LED packages; Contact resistance testing for electrical connectors; Interoperability og LED drivers, etc via DALI.
• Final actions on ANSs: SPL level determinations; evaluation of human exposure to mechanical vibration and shock; Comprehensive Fall Protection Programs; Safety standard for marking and labeling systems; Electric motor operated hand-held tools; Articulating Boom Cranes; Five new Welding standards from AWS; Recommended inclusions in fog equipment manuals; Standard format for electronic transfer of luminaire optical data; Electrical inspector qualifications; Steel deck standard; Cord sets and power supply cords;Track lighting system safety.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: Cabling, LEDs, premise cabling; bonding networks; color measurement and management; Fibre optics in ten standards; 3-D human body scanning data; Coding of A/V objects and MPEG systems energy efficiency media consumption; C++,
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: Geometric product specifications (GPS); welding curtains; Multicore cable for digital communications; electrical connectors in three parts; Industrial networks - fieldbus profiles x10; Product life-cycle design, technical documentation; more electrical connectors; more electrical cables, more ]optical fiber cables.
• TSP meeting schedule.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program, with a new donor, Inventions Guite.

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