White Paper: Use and Testing of Laboratory Balances in Legally Regulated Environments
Authors: Dr. Ellen Hage, Axel Taube, Niclas Ludolph, Dr. Julian Haller | Last updated: July 2020
Overview
Regulated metrology imposes strict requirements on weighing instruments, as the trueness and accuracy of their measurements is in the public interest. The legal obligation of verification serves to protect consumers and applies, among other things, to measurements in the areas of occupational safety and environmental protection as well as in medicine.
The requirements set by regulated metrology often do not meet the quality standards of a weighing application, especially in the case of highly accurate weighing of the smallest quantities on analytical and micro balances. This white paper describes the requirements and limits of legal metrology and identifies measures that help to ensure the quality requirements of weighing applications are reliably met.
- Document type: White paper
- Page count: 6
- Read time: 8 minutes
Key Takeaways
- Understanding Legal Metrology Requirements
- Importance of Type-Approved Balances
- Maximum Permissible Errors
- Limitations of Legal Metrology
- Sartorius Recommendations
This Resource is Designed for:
- Lab Managers
- Lab Technicians
- Compliance Experts/Quality Control Professionals
- Lab Directors
- Scientists
Applications Supported:
- Compliance With Legal Metrology Requirements
- Use and Testing of Laboratory Balances
- Lab Weighing
- Legal Metrology
- Mass Comparators