Division 2 REQUIREMENTS FOR CHECKING BATCHES OF PREPACKAGESF1

The checking of prepackages shall be carried out by sampling and shall be in two parts:

• a check covering the actual contents of each prepackage in the sample,

• another check on the average of the actual contents of the prepackages in the sample.

A batch of prepackages shall be considered acceptable if the results of both these checks satisfy the acceptance criteria.

For each of these checks, there are two sampling plans:

• one for non-destructive testing, i.e., testing which does not involve opening the package,

• the other for destructive testing, i.e., testing which involves opening or destroying the package.

For economic and practical reasons, the latter test shall be limited to the absolutely essential minimum; it is less effective than the non-destructive test.

Destructive testing shall therefore be used only when non-destructive testing is impracticable. As a general rule it shall not be applied to batches of fewer than 100 units.