Food sampling

Analysis may be undertaken by or on behalf of a manufacturer regarding their own product, or for official food law enforcement or control purposes, or for research or public information.

This is true whether the 'whole' is a manufacturer's entire production batch, or where it is a single item but too large to all be used for the test.

This is true whether the data are to be used as the basis of labelling declarations, assurance of compliance with legislative or other standards, monitoring of production as part of HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points), or for routine quality control.

The following tests and analyses can be conducted: In the United Kingdom, enforcement is under the Food Safety Act 1990.

The Association of Public Analysts was commissioned by the Food Standards Agency to look into this, culminating in a scheme for Risk Based Sampling,[3][4] though it has not yet been adopted by the enforcement authorities.