Oooh. The federal government is involved so it must be better.
Do the feds have super-special calibration equipment or something? Are they cracking down on the fly-by-night, elixir-producing, fake-measuring-stick quack doctor industry? Is that why my taxes are so high?
For inquiring minds, here's info about the feds super-special calibration equipment: http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/index.cfm