Title: conformity assessment
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - conformity assessment
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08067
Status: current

Definition
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.

Related Terms
- acceptance interval: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08052
- audit: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08058
- certification: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08063
- decision rule: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08072
- guard band (with Figs. 1 and 2): https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08076
- inspection: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08080
- organization: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08091
- rejection interval: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08121
- specified requirements: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08129
- tolerance interval: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08135

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1022 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)

Other Outputs
- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08067/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08067/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08067/xml

Citation: 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. 10.1351/goldbook.08067
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