https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.08118
Process that formally establishes the certified property value(s) of a candidate certified reference material.
Notes:
- The process is the responsibility of the reference material producer.
- Properties of a material include qualitative properties such as identities of chemical substances and quantitative properties such as mass concentration.
- The outcome of the process is a reference material certificate.
- Reference material certification is a "first-party attestation" in accordance with the definition of the term "declaration".