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The Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM) has the task of organizing a comprehensive set of international comparisons to establish the technical basis for the mutual recognition of measurement capabilities among the national measurement institutes (NMIs) in the field of chemical measurement. The challenge that the CCQM faces is to identify, design, and conduct a limited number of key comparisons to enable the assessment of measurement comparability among NMIs across the entirety of ’chemical measurement space’. This is no easy task because the field of chemical metrology is extremely diverse and multidimensional, owing to the number of measurand types, concentrations, and matrix types of importance. The ”CCQM primary methods symposium: how far does the light shine?” was organized to provide information and initiate discussions to assist in this challenge, and clarify how the concept of a primary method of measurement could be instrumental in achieving this goal.
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Wielgosz, R. CCQM primary methods symposium: how far does the light shine?. Accred Qual Assur 6, B329–B331 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00010458
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00010458