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The American National Standards Institute has introduced a new e-mail notification service. Standards Action is a bi-weekly status report on domestic, regional, and international standards freely available as a downloadable PDF file via ANSI Online. This document is useful for those who need to be kept up-to-date on new and proposed standards and regulations, on the accreditation of standards developers and U.S. Technical Advisory Groups, and other important news of interest to the standardization community. Helpful EU Standards and The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published
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in Wanted: Baldrige Examiners The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Baldrige National Quality Program is looking for volunteers from a wide variety of business, education, health care, and not-for-profit organizations to serve a one-year term on the board of examiners for the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Applications for the board will be available in November. Plastics, Printing, Packaging “Hub” trhubnet.com is an Internet portal designed specifically for the international plastics, printing, and packaging industries and presents a starting point for finding relevant business information for these industries quickly and easily. The site, which is built and maintained by the Messe Düsseldorf representative in Italy, is divided into segments based on the plastics, printing, and packaging industry group and provides information about particular companies and associations, products, news, legislation updates, and relevant trade shows worldwide. Ceramic Meeting and Exposition The American Ceramic Society’s 103rd Annual Meeting and Exposition
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troductory reference for industry and government officials on
the general principles and concepts behind the EU “New Approach”
Laws and Directives. It provides information on the EU’s approach
to conformity assessment and requirements for obtaining a CE mark
to gain access to the European Market. The guide offers explanations
of such concepts as notified bodies, conformity assessment modules,
supplier’s declaration of conformity, technical construction files,
user manuals, authorized representatives, and product liability
in the European Union. Contact: U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, DC 20402-9325 (NIST Special Publication 951) or go
to the 
basic science and processing of ceramics and glasses, whitewares
and materials, engineering and electronic ceramics, refractories
and cements, glass and optical materials, and art ceramics. Sixteen
symposia will be presented. The abstract deadline for papers is
Nov. 15. For more information or to submit your abstract electronically
go to