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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 210 cm-13 Sampling and testing wood pulp shipments for moisture (July 31, 2025)
T 537 om-21 Dirt count in paper and paperboard (optical character recognition - OCR) (August 17, 2025) 
T 556 om-21 Bending resistance of paper and paperboard by single-point bending methods (August 17, 2025) 
T 563 om-21 Equivalent black area (EBA) and count of visible dirt in pulp, paper and paperboard by image analysis (August 17, 2025) 

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