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Update on COMAR: the Internet database for certified reference materials

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This paper describes the COMAR database for certified reference materials (CRMs). The Web-based version of COMAR is freely accessible via the Internet. COMAR was established to assist laboratories in finding the CRMs needed. The database is maintained in a collaboration of the world’s major CRM producers. The planned changes in the database as agreed at the last COMAR council meeting in Prague in May 2006 are indicated.

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  1. The name COMAR was originally derived from the French term “Code d’Indexation des Matériaux de Référence”.

  2. Presently the LGC (UK) and the NIST (USA) hesitate signing the MoU for clarifying details of the data input procedure.

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  1. COMAR Central Secretariat, c/o Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Steiger & Rita Pradel

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Steiger, T., Pradel, R. Update on COMAR: the Internet database for certified reference materials. Accred Qual Assur 12, 265–268 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-006-0234-5

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