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Gray, Bureau Chief
Mission
rotect Florida's buyers and sellers by assuring that equity prevails in commercial
;actions involving measurement and to provide a standardized calibration and
7tific measurement center for the state.
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Bureau of Weights and Measures inspects more than 60,000 commercial
suring devices each year. These devices include retail scales, pharmacy
nces, industrial and livestock scales, vehicle scales and taximeters. Inspectors
routinely test.the accuracy of retail price scanners, as well as the accuracy of
Is and net contents of pack food items, packaged goods such as dry goods,
sehold items, building and construction materials, gardening products, and
dreds of other products purchased daily by consumers and business.
Bureau's Metrology Laboratory, located in Tallahassee, maintains the state's
nary standards of mass, length and volume. It also provides calibration services
he commercial measurement industry, scientific and law enforcement labs,
nufacturers, and the aerospace and technology industries.
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