This is an upgrade on the already existing management excellence certificates Jafza has won from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

Ongoing nanotechnology standardisation activities and particular areas of focus needed for nanotechnology standards will be discussed at a meeting called by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)'s Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) this month (September) in Chicago.

However, quite often all this rulemaking does not result from the drive of the Eurocrats (who are a well-educated and energetic lot), but from lobbies in industry, in case of agriculture probably from traders and processors, who want some standardisation so that, for instance, when they buy herring for pickling or canning they do get proper herrings and not an ill-assorted lot of scrawny sprats.