INRiM celebrates the Day by showing its research in support of the global food system.
World Metrology Day is celebrated globally on 20 May 2023.
World Metrology Day is an annual celebration of the signature of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875 by representatives of seventeen nations. The International Organization of Legal Metrology (O.I.M.L.) and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (B.I.P.M.) collaborated on the World Metrology Day project.
The theme of World Metrology Day 2023 is "Measurements supporting the global food system", to ask us about the growing challenges that climate change and the global distribution of food impose on metrology.
Food metrology is an emerging research area in the science of measurement and provides reference standards, techniques and tools that help ensure the safety and quality of what we eat. In this sense, INRiM is committed to monitoring the health risks associated with exposure to toxic substances in the environment and food, and contributes to the preservation of the food chain by developing innovative analysis techniques that allow assessing the quality and origin of food.
These activities are directly related to the new IMPreSA infrastructure, in which advanced analytical techniques and metrological skills are integrated to develop and apply reference methods and materials and standardised procedures for characterising food and material matrices and objects in contact with food.
We will dedicate an entire week to the themes of World Metrology Day 2023.
- On Monday May 15, INRiM, as chair of the European Metrology Network on Safe and Sustainable Food (EMN-Food), organized the webinar "Measurements supporting the global food system", with the aim of present some of the most prominent activities in Europe related to the measurements in the area of food.
- On Thursday May 18, we inaugurated the IMPreSA infrastructure.
- From Saturday May 20, the webinar's recording is available.