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Radio 4,01 Apr 2010,28 mins

Who Sets Our Standards?

In Business

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Who Sets Our Standards? World trade in goods and services - from the butter on your bread to the existence of the mobile phone - is held together by an invisible web of standards set by all kinds of official and semi official organisations. Peter Day has been asking the standards-setters what they do, and why it matters. Producer: Sandra Kanthal.

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