{"id":26305,"date":"2022-03-01T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26305"},"modified":"2022-03-01T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:18:30","slug":"governor-hogan-proclaims-march-1-7-maryland-weights-and-measures-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/03\/01\/governor-hogan-proclaims-march-1-7-maryland-weights-and-measures-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hogan Proclaims March 1-7 Maryland Weights and Measures Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governor Larry Hogan has issued a proclamation declaring March 1\u20137 as\u00a0Maryland Weights and Measures Week<\/a>\u00a0in recognition of the dedicated public servants who serve the Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s (MDA) Weights and Measures Section.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeights and Measures inspectors play a critical role in protecting consumers and ensuring the accuracy of everything from grocery store scales to gas pumps,\u201d said Secretary Joe Bartenfelder. \u201cWeights and Measures Week is a great time to highlight the important work of our inspectors and to thank them for all they do to ensure fairness in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

MDA\u2019s Weights and Measures Section is responsible for verifying that all scales, meters, and other devices used to calculate price in Maryland are accurate and operating correctly \u2013 safeguarding the consumer from unfair and incorrect pricing. Everyday, MDA\u2019s Weights and Measures staff work to test the accuracy of gasoline pumps, meters used to measure home fuel oil deliveries, and thousands of scales \u2013 from the grocery store to highway truck scales \u2013 providing an important service to Marylanders.<\/p>\n

Maryland Weights and Measures Week coincides with\u00a0National Weights and Measures Week<\/a>, which commemorates President John Adams\u2019 signing of the first U.S. weights and measures law in 1799. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cFor the Sake of Equity,\u201d which emphasizes weights and measures inspectors continuing efforts to ensure that consumers are getting what they pay for.<\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Weights and Measures staff inspects 60,541 weighing and measuring devices in commercial use at 7,732 businesses around the state. In FY21, field staff conducted 45,657 inspections of commercial weighing and measuring devices, including: cash registers, deli scales, shipping scales, large truck scales, fuel pumps, meters to measure home heating oil and propane, and many other devices. The department also inspected 293 individual lots of pre-packaged commodities offered for sale and investigated 168 consumer complaints, the majority of which were related to gasoline sales.<\/p>\n

For more information on the MDA\u2019s Weights and Measures Section, or to submit a complaint, please visit the department\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>. MDA\u2019s Weights and Measures Section can also be reached at (410) 841-5790 or\u00a0weights.measures@maryland.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter\u00a0@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n

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Governor Larry Hogan has issued a proclamation declaring March 1\u20137 as\u00a0Maryland Weights and Measures Week\u00a0in recognition of the dedicated public servants who serve the Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s (MDA) Weights and Measures Section. \u201cWeights and Measures inspectors play a critical role in protecting consumers and ensuring the accuracy of everything from grocery store scales to  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26311,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305\/revisions\/26311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}