The second exercise of the NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program (FNSQAP) is underway. FNSQAP helps food laboratories demonstrate measurement competence to regulators, consumers, and others in the supply chain.
The accuracy and precision of measurements made by food labs is important so that manufacturers and consumers are confident in the claims on nutrition and ingredients labels, and to comply with regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and international bodies.
For many decades, NIST has supported these communities with reference materials that labs can use to check their analytical methods for food nutrition and food safety measurements; This program is another form of measurement support.
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More details about Exercise 2 can be found in the invitation letter.
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Registration for Exercise 2 will close on March 4, 2022.
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Samples will be distributed in late March/early April 2022.
