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Weights and Measures Service
Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005
Program accomplishments...
Ensures economic equity and uniformity in commerce. The agency provides classroom training, computer-based training, and technical assistance to State weights and measures laboratories to help assure that State measurement standards are traceable to national standards. It also develops device performance and commodity packaging standards with representatives of manufacturers, packagers, distributors, consumer groups, and officials in Federal, State, and local jurisdictions who enforce laws and regulations governing packages and measuring devices. The agency provides technical support to the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) and aids in the development of uniform and compatible State weights and measures laws and regulations, codes for measuring device design and performance, and the design and implementation of test procedures and prototype device evaluation. The Weights and Measures Division staff participates actively in NCWM affairs, and provides technical assistance to its members, to Federal, State, and local government, and to private manufacturing and service businesses. The Fourth Edition of NIST Handbook 133 was published in January 2003. A comprehensive CD-ROM-based training course in laboratory mass calibration procedures and concepts was completed in September, 2003. A CD-ROM-based training course in the use of electronic audit trails for commercial weighing and measuring devices will also be completed in Spring, 2004. Two workshops for weights and measures administrators were held in September and October 2001, to address management and budget issues confronting weights and measures enforcement program. A benchmark study of the national weights and measures system is in progress with completion expected in 2004.
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