Excerpt from News Briefs, Vol. 99: July-August, 1994 The Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 84 of Tuesday, May 3, 1994, announced the final mle making changes to regulations pertaining to the operation of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accredita tion Program (nvlap). The nvlap procedures are redesignated as Part 285 of Title 15 of the Code Of Federal Regulations. These procedures have been expanded to in elude accreditation Of calibration laboratories; updated to achieve compatibility with conformance assurance and assessment concepts; modified to ensure consistency with relevant International Organization for Standardization documents; and revised to facilitate and promote acceptance Of calibration and test results between countries to avoid barriers to trade. The revised procedures will foster cooperation among laboratories and with other bodies, and establish the basis for bilateral and multilateral agreements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.