Bureau of Weights and Measures
Max Gray, Bureau ChiefOur Mission
To protect Florida's buyers and sellers by assuring that equity prevails in commercial transactions involving measurement and to provide a standardized calibration and scientific measurement center for the state.
Bureau Profile
The Bureau of Weights and Measures inspects more than 60,000 commercial measuring devices each year. These devices include retail scales, pharmacy balances, industrial and livestock scales, vehicle scales and taximeters. Inspectors also routinely test the accuracy of retail price scanners, as well as the accuracy of labels and net contents of pack food items, packaged goods such as dry goods, household items, building and construction materials, gardening products, and hundreds of other products purchased daily by consumers and business.
The Bureau's Metrology Laboratory, located in Tallahassee, maintains the state's primary standards of mass, length and volume. It also provides calibration services to the commercial measurement industry, scientific and law enforcement labs, manufacturers, and the aerospace and technology industries.