Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

PART IDefinitions

In this Schedule—

“sampled portion” means a quantity of a material constituting a unit and having characteristics presumed to be uniform;

“incremental sample” means a quantity taken from one point in the sampled portion;

“aggregate sample” means an aggregate of incremental samples taken from the same sampled portion;

“reduced sample” means a representative part of the aggregate sample obtained from the latter by a process of reduction;

“final sample” means a representative part of the reduced sample or, where no intermediate reduction is required, of the aggregate sample; and

“unit” has the same meaning as in the sampling Directive.