conformity assessment

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Activity to determine whether specified requirements relating to a product, process, system, person, or body are fulfilled.
Notes:
  1. The subject field of conformity assessment includes activities, such as testing, calibration, carrying out an audit, inspection, and certification, as well as the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies.
  2. The expression "object of conformity assessment" or "object" is used to encompass any particular material, product, installation, process, system, person, or body to which conformity assessment is applied.
  3. "Body" refers to an organization.
See also: guard band (with Figs. 1 and 2), acceptance interval, tolerance interval, rejection interval, decision rule
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 997. (Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)) on page 1022 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'conformity assessment' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.08067 RIS BibTex EndNote
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