In the field of food safety Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules requires (Article 10, Control activities, methods and techniques) that official controls on feed and food include, inter alia, the following activities: (g) the reading of values recorded by means of measuring instruments in feed or food businesses; (h) controls, carried out by means of the competent authority’s own instruments, to verify measurements taken by operators from feed and food businesses. The ultimate goal of these activities is to evaluate the conformity of measurement results to specifications. The activities cited above imply that staff performing official controls: a) receive, for their area of competence, appropriate training enabling them to undertake their duties competently and to carry out official controls in a consistent manner; b) keep up to date in their area of competence and receive regular additional training as necessary. The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) and the Italian National Institute of Metrological Research (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, INRIM) have planned, in collaboration with Italian Competent Authorities, as the Veterinary Public Service – Florence Local Health Unit, and other interested parties, as the Veterinary Medical Research Institute for Piemonte, Liguria and the Valle D’Aosta, training courses for personnel involved in food and feed official control systems. In these courses lectures and training sessions on the following subjects are included: − general concepts on conformity assessment − general concepts related to metrology and metrological traceability − calibration and uncertainty of measurement − measurement management systems − requirements for measurement processes and measuring equipment.