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 ...

EAST PALESTINE– The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and The Ohio State University (OSU) have finalized an Agricultural Plant Tissue Sampling Plan and will next week begin collecting plant tissue ...

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 ...

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, ...

Manual sampling techniques such as hand scoop and spigot sampling are common methods with food and beverage producers and processors. These convenient and low-cost, direct methods are widely accepted ...

Systematic sampling is straightforward and low risk, offering better control. However, it may introduce sampling errors and ...

Sampling of water systems for Legionella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or bacteriological can be somewhat daunting, with thoughts of "do I need to sample," "how to take a sample" and "where should I send ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On Thursday night, environmental officials met with the community that was affected by contamination left behind by a railroad tie manufacturer that closed in 2006. The Kerr-McGee ...