Modified Voting Draft Standard and Response-to-Comments Document
Date Posted: 3-29-2014
The TNI Chemistry Expert Committee has modified its Voting Draft Standard on Calibration (EL-V1M4, Sections 1.7.1 and 1.7.2) as a result of persuasive comments received from the voting members. The resulting Modified Voting Draft Standard is provided, together with the Response-to-Comments document.
Modified Voting Draft Standard (PDF)
Response-to-Comments (PDF)
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