Acceptance sampling plans and reliability testing constitute fundamental tools for ensuring product quality and performance. These methodologies allow manufacturers and researchers to assess a lot’s ...

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 this paper we consider certain continuous sampling plans for which the rules concerning partial inspection depend, in part, on the length of time it takes to decide that the process quality is good ...

The USDA is planning to reduce some Salmonella testing for poultry products for the coming fiscal year, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In a 33-page sampling plan for fiscal year 2024, the ...

EPA states that the intent of the Guidance is to: . . . make Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permit writers, inspectors, and the regulated community aware of controls, conditions and ...

Overview: This course provides the attendees with the tools needed to understand and implement acceptance sampling. We explain the basis for sampling plans, the binomial distribution, and show how it ...

Originating in the 1920s as a sampling scheme for agricultural regulatory inspectors, the square root (Sqrt) of the lot size (N) + 1 was semiformalized in an unpublished report by the Association of ...

Overview: This course provides the attendees with the tools needed to understand and implement acceptance sampling. We explain the basis for sampling plans, the binomial distribution, and show how it ...