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The TAPPI Standards regulations require public review of standards that are up for ballot. TAPPI members can view any drafts that are in ballot by logging in to the TAPPI web site (www.tappi.org), clicking on "My TAPPI," and then clicking on the "Standards Public Draft Review" link on the left side of the page. If you would like to review and comment on any draft and are not a member of the corresponding Standard-Specific Interest Group (SSIG), you may view the draft on line or you may request a copy of the draft being balloted by writing to standards@tappi.org. TAPPI members may join SSIGs as permanent members; go to the Subject Category page to download forms for this purpose. Nonmembers of TAPPI may join any SSIG as a voting member; to do so, send a message to standards@tappi.org to receive a copy of the draft and a ballot.

Listed below are TAPPI Standards that have recently gone out for ballot to the corresponding Standard-Specific Interest Group (SSIG). The date in parentheses is the closing date for voting.

T 632 cm-01 "Analysis of sodium silicate" (October 28, 2010)
T 801 om-06 "Impact resistance of fiberboard shipping containers" (for WITHDRAWAL; October 28, 2010)
T 646 om-06 "Brightness of clay and other mineral pigments (45/0)" (November 1, 2010)
T 494 om-06 "Tensile properties of paper and paperboard (using constant rate of elongation apparatus)" (November 8, 2010)
T 464 om-06 "Water vapor transmission rate of paper and paperboard at high temperature and humidity" (November 12, 2010)
T 576 pm-07 "Tensile properties ("dry tensile") of towel and tissue products" (title change and revision; November 15, 2010)
T New (WI 3016) "Tensile breaking strength ("wet tensile strength") of water-saturated paper and paperboard: immersion method" (November 15, 2010)
T New (WI 3017) "Tensile breaking strength ("wet tensile strength") of water-saturated paper and paperboard" (November 15, 2010)
T 460 om-06 "Air resistance of paper (Gurley method)" (November 15, 2010)
T 810 om-06 "Bursting strength of corrugated board" (revision and title change; November 29, 2010)
T 807 om-08 "Bursting strength of linerboard" (November 29, 2010)
T 551 om-06 "Thickness of paper and paperboard (soft platen method)" (November 29, 2010)
T 537 om-06 "Dirt count in paper and paperboard (optical character recognition - OCR)" (November 29, 2010)
T 600 cm-01 "Analysis of formaldehyde in aqueous solutions and of free formaldehyde in resins" (proposed reclassification as an Official Method, November 29, 2010)

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