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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...