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International Standards

Recognising the importance of international standards in facilitating quality products and international trade, the IOTA has been active in the International Organisation for Standards (ISO) since 2008.

The Association has also participated in standards development with the European Federation of Graphics Associations (Intergraf) and the North American Security Products Organisation (NASPO).

Through these organisations, the IOTA has contributed to the drafting of several standards.

ISO 14298: Management of security printing and security foil production processes. A standard applied by Intergraf and used by security printers and security foil suppliers around the world, for which the IOTA wrote the Security Foils Origination and Production Chapter so that foil suppliers can become certified as security producers.

The standard specifies the steps that security printers and security foil suppliers should follow to ensure that their processes are secure. Intergraf and NASPO both have certification auditors for this standard which requires that, as a part of their risk reduction processes, security foil suppliers should use a register to check the availability of proposed designs and to register their OVDs.

At present this means the IOTA’s SIR as there is no other security image register operating.

ISO 12931: Performance criteria for authentication solutions used in the field of material goods, which is obviously important to hologram producers who supply holograms for product and brand protection.

ISO 17901-1: Methods of measuring diffraction efficiency and associated optical characteristics of holograms.

ISO 17901-2: Methods for measurement of hologram recording characteristics.

These two parts of ISO 17901 give detailed methods for the measurement of key characteristics of holograms.

The IOTA also actively cooperates with the Authentication Solution Provider’s Association (ASPA) in India and Secure Identification Union (SIU) in China to further promote the use of SIR and ensure the highest professional, security and quality standards are maintained.