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Quality assurance

NIST has a rich history of coordinating quality assurance programs that participants use to identify and understand community-wide measurement challenges, improve the accuracy of their measurements, and demonstrate an effort to comply with various regulations. These programs offer the opportunity for laboratories to assess their in-house measurements, and participation in a quality assurance program in conjunction with the use of reference materials has been shown to improve the comparability and precision of data over time.

For more information about NIST’s Quality Assurance Programs, see this program webpage.

News and Updates

NIST, Partners Develop Living Reference Material for Producing Monoclonal Antibodies

NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program Launches New Exercise

NIST Quality Assurance Program for Dietary Supplement Measurements Open for Registration

Blog Posts

Standing Up for Scientific Integrity: A Q&A With Writer-Director José Ricardo García on the New Film ‘The AD-X2 Controversy’

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