Why Weights & Measures?
A. It’s hard to be a smart consumer today. You think about the products you buy and the amount you can spend. Can I afford this? Is this the best buy? Am I getting my money’s worth? Almost everything we buy is sold by weight, volume, length, count, or measure. Think of examples–a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, a liter of wine, a yard of cloth, a pound of hamburger, 128 cu. ft. of firewood. Without standard measurements, it would be difficult to do even simple things like use cookbooks or buy carpeting, laundry detergent, and fabric. Q. How do we know we are getting what we pay for? A. For hundreds of years, your local weights and measures officials have been working behind the scenes to protect consumers, businesses, and manufacturers from unfair practices. Weights and measures officials work in agriculture departments, consumer protections offices, and other state and local government agencies. These men and women use highly accurate equipment to inspect scales, meters, scanning equip
