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On the grounds that clear and direct communication is required of us today, it is proposed that traceability be regarded as the ability to demonstrate that measurements are what they are purported to be and that traceability is thus to measurement units rather than reference values per se. It is suggested that such an approach may give greater flexibility in the establishment, maintenance and propagation of traceability, and that accreditation practices are becoming central to the practical establishment of traceability for chemical and biological measurement.
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Price, G. (2003). Traceability to units. In: De Bièvre, P., Günzler, H. (eds) Traceability in Chemical Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27093-0_49
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