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Statistical Evaluation of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority Sampling Protocol for Imported Food
Author(s) -
Govindaraju Kondaswamy,
Bebbington Mark,
Wrathall Thewaporn
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01346.x
Subject(s) - protocol (science) , food safety , sampling (signal processing) , quality (philosophy) , engineering , computer science , statistics , operations management , business , mathematics , medicine , food science , telecommunications , biology , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology , detector
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority sampling protocol for compliance inspection of imported food products is evaluated for its ability to provide consumer protection. The sampling protocol involves both partial testing of imported consignments and complete skipping inspection of consignments based on the quality history. The risk posed by the strategies of partial testing and skipping inspection of imports is evaluated using the average outgoing quality limit and other performance measures. The cost dimension of sampling inspection is also considered. Suggestions for improvement, which include tightening the skipping inspection parameters, are made.