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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

Katrice Lippa

Katrice Lippa leads the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) at NIST. OWM develops a series of NIST handbooks and device test procedures and training for legal metrology inspectors, laboratory metrologists, and weights and measures officials. OWM also ensures state weights and measures standards are traceable to the SI. Since completing her Ph.D. in chemistry in 2001, she has spent her professional metrology career at NIST in a variety of roles as a research chemist, senior scientific advisor, and as the leader of the Organic Chemical Metrology Group.

4 Places Weights and Measures Help You Get What You Pay For

March 1, 2023

Here at NIST, we are committed to making sure you get what you pay for when buying something based on weight or measure, such as food or fuel.

Linking the World Through Chemical Measurements

April 23, 2019

Our modern world depends on global connections. For instance, how can you be sure that the nutrition labels are correct on imported food products such as that

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