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ODA's metrology laboratory measures up nationally
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4/25/2012
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Oregon consumers and businesses will be happy to know that a laboratory in Salem has just received a great report card from experts in the field of weights and measures:
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Engineers and the technical world may be impressed with the results of a recent assessment of the Oregon Department of Agriculture's Metrology Laboratory in which the lab was reaffirmed as one of the best in the nation at being capable and precise. But what does that mean for the average Oregonian?
COONEY: "Everything that the consumer would purchase out there as far as their food products, gasoline, diesel fuel- getting the accurate measurement so that you are in fact getting what you are paying for traces right back to the measurements made in this laboratory." :15
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ODA's Clark Cooney says the lab calibrates all industry standards for measurement so that tools used to check weighing and measuring devices for accuracy are themselves accurate. The third party assessment was especially gratifying to metrologist Aaron Aydelotte (aid-uh-lot):
AYDELOTTE: "When you have a physicist from NIST come into your laboratory as one of the technical experts- not only in the nation, but in the world- look over your shoulder and watch you calibrate, it really makes you feel great when he tells you what a good job you've done." :15
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The equipment used by ODA inspectors to check more than 54-thousand licensed weighing and measuring devices in Oregon is calibrated by the metrology lab. So a good review by the experts is good news for Oregon consumers and businesses. In Salem, I'm Bruce Pokarney.
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COONEY is pleased with the report card ODA's metrology lab has received this past week:
"The results of this assessment basically shows the high level and credibility that this laboratory has within the United States as a very high precision, well respected, and credentialed facility." :16
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COONEY says that a good assessment for the lab lends validity that measurements in the marketplace are accurate and that consumers are getting what they pay for:
"Oregon's gross domestic product is somewhere in the neighborhood of $175 billion a year. It's estimated that half of that- so, a little over $80 billion per year is directly related to weights and measures. All of that is directly traceable to this very laboratory." :20
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Full story
http://oregon.gov/ODA/news/120425metrology_lab.shtml
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