09990 IUPAC Gold Book - examination procedure 10.1351/goldbook.09990 09990 current 1 Detailed description of an examination according to one or more examination principles and to a given examination method and any decision algorithm necessary to obtain an examination result. An examination procedure specifies the dedicated kind-of-nominal-property involved, any sampling, examining system, nominal reference material(s) needed, and the nominal property value set used. The examination procedure also specifies how many examined values that are necessary to obtain an examination result and how to estimate the expected examination uncertainty. The information presented in an examination procedure is intended to be operational and should be sufficient for a trained operator to perform an examination satisfactorily. An examination procedure can include a statement concerning a target examination uncertainty. Working instructions, or "standard operating procedure", at laboratory A to examine a sample for a possible mutation in the gene for haemochromatosis (HFE). dedicated kind-of-nominal-property https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09983 examination https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09984 examination method https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09989 examination principles https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09988 examination result https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09999 examination uncertainty https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10004 examined values https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10000 examining system https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09986 nominal property value set https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09997 nominal reference material(s) https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10020 target examination uncertainty https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10013 PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 919 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09990/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09990/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09990/plain Citation: 'examination procedure' 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.09990 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-06T17:55:15+00:00