{"term":{"id":"08118","title":"reference material certification","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - reference material certification","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08118","code":"08118","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: certification of a reference material","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Process that formally establishes the certified property value(s) of a candidate certified reference material.\n","notes":{"1":"The process is the responsibility of the reference material producer.","2":"Properties of a material include qualitative properties such as identities of chemical substances and quantitative properties such as mass concentration.","3":"The outcome of the process is a reference material certificate.","4":"Reference material certification is a \"first-party attestation\" in accordance with the definition of the term \"declaration\"."},"links":[{"term":"candidate certified reference material","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08059"},{"term":"certified property value(s)","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08013"},{"term":"reference material certificate","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08117"},{"term":"reference material producer","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08120"}],"sources":["PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1038 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0819)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08118\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08118\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08118\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'reference material certification' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.08118","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-23T16:54:03+00:00"}}