ISO 26262 requires a variety of processes and frameworks for safety management, safety concept development, requirements flow-down, and verification & validation activities.
Social media and the internet in general have given manufacturers a much greater ability to communicate with their consumers on a regular and frequent basis.
Tests and manufacturing results have proven that some static dissipative materials can still produce significant and possibly damaging discharge currents.
After causing a bit of a stir in the compliance testing industry in the last few years, the FCC recently defused some tension when they accepted a pair of US-based Accreditation Bodies to accredit laboratories in foreign lands.