---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 200.104"
title: "15"
number: "200.104"
heading: "Standard reference materials."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/200.104"
---

# §200.104. Standard reference materials.


Often the performance of a device or structure can be evaluated at the user's laboratory by comparing its response to unknown materials with its response to a stable, homogeneous reference specimen which has been well-characterized with regard to the physical or chemical property being measured. For information regarding carefully characterized materials see Subchapter B, Chapter II, [Part 230](/cfr/15/part230.md), of this title. The Office of Standard Reference Materials in the NIST National Measurement Laboratory administers a program to provide many types of well-characterized materials that are needed to calibrate a measurement system or to produce scientific data that can be readily referred to a common base. NIST SP 260 is a catalog of Standard Reference Materials available from NIST.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 9, 31 Stat. 1450, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 277. Interprets or applies sec. 7, 31 Stat. 1450; 15 U.S.C. 275a.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 55166, Aug. 19, 1980, unless otherwise noted.