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PUBLICATIONS

NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) Recognition Program Handbook, 7th Edition

Published

Author(s)

Micheal Hicks, Georgia L. Harris, Katrice Lippa, Isabel Chavez Baucom, Elizabeth Koncki

Abstract

Handbook 143 provides the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) performance standards and formalized procedures for the voluntary recognition of State legal metrology laboratories. This 2023 edition supersedes the 2019 edition.
Citation
Handbook (NIST HB) - 143-2023
Report Number
143-2023
NIST Pub Series
Handbook (NIST HB)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.HB.143-2023
Local Download

Keywords

calibration, ISO/IEC 17025, laboratory recognition, state laboratory program, weights and measures.
Weights and measures and Metrology

Citation

Hicks, M. , Harris, G. , Lippa, K. , Baucom, I. and Koncki, E. (2023), NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) Recognition Program Handbook, 7th Edition, Handbook (NIST HB), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.HB.143-2023, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936320 (Accessed October 7, 2025)

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Created December 11, 2023
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