What's New > New Standards Watch | 17 January 2026
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
- One ESTA/ESA standard in public review.
- Call for ESTA TSP consensus body participants.
- FCC exempts certain drones from restrictions, releases additional FAQs
- More data for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization.
- ANSI public review: appliance leakage current interrupters.
- CSA public review: flood and erosion management.
- New ANS projects: public safety crises and stress.
- Final actions on ANSs: three ESTA standards; plumbing code; nickel batteries; headphones; shipboard electrical systems; MEWPs; and devices for low vision.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: augmented reality; IoT; remote workiing health and safety management; body sizes and shapes; two BIM standards; and brain-computer interface security threats.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: safety of laser products for $4,662 and a correction to it for FREE!
- TSP meeting schedule.
- 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.


