The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is continuing its sampling plan and has published updates for the 2025 fiscal year. The plan is designed to leverage technological and sampling advances ...

In single sampling, a random sample of n items is selected from a lot of size N. If the number d of nonconforming (defective) items found in the sample is less than or equal to an acceptance number c, ...

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This article discusses reduced sampling and testing of starting materials or components. Different strategies are presented to reduce the workload at the steps from sampling to release. Viewpoints ...

Understanding the differences between convenience, target, and self-selected samples. Representative samples and sampling are addressed multiple times in the cGMPs. For example, in Part 21 of the Code ...