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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
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Title 7 - Agriculture |
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Subtitle B - Regulations of the Department of Agriculture |
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Chapter I - Agricultural Marketing Service (Standards, Inspections, Marketing Practices), Department of Agriculture |
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SubChapter A - Commodity Standards and Standard Container Regulations |
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Part 43 - Standards for Sampling Plans |
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Sampling Plans |
§ 43.103 - Purpose and scope.
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§ 43.103 Purpose and scope.
(a) This subpart contains selected single and double sampling plans for inspection by attributes. They are to serve as a source of plans for developing sound specifications, standards, or sampling and inspection procedures.
(b) The sampling plans of this subpart and corresponding operating characteristic curves are indexed by acceptable quality level, AQL. The AQL's expressed in percent defectives or defects per hundred units are:
0.065 0.40 2.5 8.5 0.10 0.65 4.0 10.0 0.15 1.0 5.0 12.5 0.25 1.5 6.5 15.0