What's New > New Standards Watch | 26 July 2025
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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.
News items in this issue include:
- One ESTA/ESA standard in public review.
- OSHA reduces penalties.
- Aerosol VOC restrictions delayed 17 months.
- Behind the Scenes tools for career changes.
- ANSI seeks comments on fundamentals of services ISO Technical Committee.
- WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: US hazardous air pollutants limits delayed; no telecoms products from foreign adversaries in the USA; and the FDA rescinds milk products standards to promote MAHA and cut costs.
- ANSI public reviews: soil gas control; personnel hoists; AI in portfolio management; withdrawing three Near Field Communication standards; lighting science nomenclature; residential lighting; EMT-S; funicular safety; human exposure to wireless power transfer systems; drones surveying power lines; and heat detectors for fire protection.
- DIN public reviews: stage machinery and digital still photos.
- New ANS projects: seismic provisions for buildings; cybersecurity training for public safety personnel; images from drones; electrical fault risk identification; testing products and systems; connected medical device security; modular data centers; anode-free lithium batteries; fair decision making; industrial automation security; safety of driver-less industrial vehicles; certification of reconditioning technicians; and safety of electric scooters.
- Final actions on American National Standards: lamp ballasts; cybersecurity labels; and circularitry of batteries.
- Draft IEC & ISO docs: alkaline batteries; AV safety requirements: IoT for smart aquaculture; environment management systems; management for sustainable development goals; data use in smart cities; data center cabling; safety of lifts and moving walks; camping tourism; taxonomy of systems of systems and guidelines for systems of systems; quality of experience with multimedia conferencing; and brain-computer interfaces.
- Recently published ISO & IEC docs: home and building electronic systems; compliance management; and safe, secure remote connected care.
- 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.