TAPPI Standards Approved as American National Standards

The following TAPPI Standards have been approved as American National Standards by the ANSI Board of Standards Review:

T 262 sp-12 "Preparation of mechanical pulps for testing"
T 272 sp-12 "Forming handsheets for reflectance testing of pulp (sheet machine procedure)"
T 437 om-12 "Dirt in paper and paperboard"
T 551 om-12 "Thickness of paper and paperboard (soft platen method)"
T 563 om-12 "Equivalent black area (EBA) and count of visible dirt in pulp, paper and paperboard by image analysis"
T 657 sp-12 "Sampling of fillers and pigments"
T 804 om-12 "Compression test of fiberboard shipping containers"
T 839 om-12 "Edgewise compressive strength of corrugated fiberboard using the clamp method (short column test)"
T 1500 gl-12 "Optical measurements terminology (related to appearance evaluation of paper)"

Notices of these final approvals will be placed in the December 21, 2012, edition of ANSI Standards Action.