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Taking Measure

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John McGuire

John McGuire is the Weights and Measures Coordinator at NIST. He has more than three decades of experience in weights and measures in the state of New Jersey. John has also served in working groups and committees for regional weights and measures associations and the National Conference on Weights and Measures.

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