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Standards may be of several types:
Personal exposure standards (example: radiation exposure standards,
noise limits)
Ambient composition standards (water quality standards)
Product design standards (seat bell specifications, railroad car coupler
standards)
•Product composition standards (food composition standards, pewter
alloy standards)
Product performance standards (automotive emission standards,
mattress flammability limits)
Work practice standards (limitations on air traffic controller work
hours, factory temperature standards)
Promotional claims standards (drug and cosmetic advertising
standards)
Packaging standards (childproof pill-package standards, standards
for construction of pressurized gas cylinders).
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