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Weights Measures: Industry
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NIST supports the state and commercial weights and measures laboratories, providing the basis for ensuring traceability of weights and measures standards to NIST. Programs include the development of training materials and conducting numerous seminars and workshops for metrologists from the states, industry, and other countries.
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The purpose of the Weights and Measures program is to protect consumers and businesses by ensuring that equity prevails in all commercial transactions involving determinations of quantity. Weighing and measuring devices are inspected to ensure performance within acceptable tolerances and packages are inspected to enforce net content and labeling regulations. The program adopts rules and regulations aimed at eliminating fraud and misrepresentation in commercial transactions. Field inspectors perform a variety of inspections that ensure consumer protection while providing standards for the private industry, which discourage unfair and dishonest commerce.
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This comprehensive and authoritative dictionary provides clear definitions of units, prefixes, and styles of weights and measures within the System International (SI), as well as traditional and industry-specific units. Invaluable guide to professional scientists, engineers, technicians as well as to students and the general user. Softcover.
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