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The IERS has announced that a leap second will be added to UTC at the end of 2016.
The BIPM has improved the characterization of its secondary voltage standards used for bilateral comparisons of calibrations of Zener voltage standards (BIPM.EM-K11).
The BIPM's new transportable programmable Josephson voltage standard (PJVS) was used for the first time for an on-site comparison, at the NMIJ (Japan).
Laboratory programmes for capacity building and knowledge transfer in Metrology for Safe Food and Clean Air have started in the BIPM Chemistry Department.
Over four hundred participants attended the "Protein and Peptide Therapeutics and Diagnostics: Research and Quality Assurance" workshop which was organized jointly by the NIM (China) and the BIPM.
This year's theme focuses on how accreditation can be a global tool to support public policy for all areas in the public sector - national and local government, regulators. There are some 52 000 accredited calibration and test laboratories world-wide, all of which rely on the International System of Units and on metrological traceability to ensure that laboratory measurements and tests get the right results. Click here for more information about areas of collaboration between the BIPM and ILAC.
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The mission of the BIPM is to ensure and promote the global comparability of measurements, including providing a coherent international system of units for:
- Scientific discovery and innovation,
- Industrial manufacturing and international trade,
- Sustaining the quality of life and the global environment.
The unique role of the BIPM enables it to achieve its mission by developing the technical and organizational infrastructure of the International System of Units (SI) as the basis for the world-wide traceability of measurement results. This is achieved both through technical activities in its laboratories and through international coordination.
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