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

News items in this issue include:

• ESTA standards in public review.
• Comments on the PIP (3:1) deadline due 27 December.
• More GDTF.
• Manufacturer ID squatting.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: UKCA product marking; toxic chemicals in Switzerland; and SAR and APD for the 6 GHz band. 
• ANSI public reviews: capacitors and resistors; certifying electrical testing technicians; workplace safety and health metrics; reducing slips; RV engine-generator sets; and MBE framework.
• New ANS projects: measuring standby power; welding carbon steel plate; active shooter and workplace violence; temporal light artifacts;  assessing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs; resistors and capacitors specs and use guidance; specifications for EMI suppression inductors; uniform solar, hydronics and geothermal code;  uniform swimming pool, spa, and hot tub code; industrial automation security; maintenance testing for electrical power equipment; peer review terminology; NFPA standards for sprinkler systems, fire alarms, fire doors, smoke doors, manufactured housing, and fireworks displays; UL standard for extraneous transients. 
• Final actions on ANSs: Homeland Security active interrogation systems; dispersal of routine radiological releases from nuclear facilities; reporting expert opinions; evaluating scientific data; guide for sexual violence investigation; several seized drug and clandestine drug lab investigation standards; guidance for capturing images to use in facial recognition systems; and horticultural lighting equipment and systems.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: cybersecurity; aging workforce; employee engagement; acetylene manifolds; batteries; horticultural lighting; generic cabling and physical security; driverless industrial trucks; lifts; guidance on easy-to-understand text; accessible design; data privacy; auto-transformer safety; and amusement ride safety.
• Recently published IEC & ISO docs: in-vehicle Ethernet; using social media in emergencies; robotics vocabulary; AI-aided decision making; IoT; IT security testing; and the effect of light sources on photograph degradation.
• 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 one: Sehr Gute GmbH!

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