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PUBLICATIONS

Announcing the Availability of a Draft Procedure for Determing the Amount of Purge from Chitterlings

Published

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

Abstract

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures requests comments on the draft procedure that was developed for inclusion in the NIST Handbook 133, "Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods." The purpose is to get feedback from document users on the proposed new test procedure designed for checking chitterlings.
Citation
Handbook (NIST HB) - 133
Report Number
133
NIST Pub Series
Handbook (NIST HB)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

purge, procedures, packaging, chitterlings
Metrology

Citation

Butcher, K. (2014), Announcing the Availability of a Draft Procedure for Determing the Amount of Purge from Chitterlings, Handbook (NIST HB), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=916523 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created October 14, 2014, Updated February 19, 2017
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