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spot check

[′spät ‚chek]
(industrial engineering)
A check or inspection of certain steps in an operation, process, or the like, of certain parts of a piece of equipment or of a representative lot of completed parts or articles; the steps or parts inspected would normally be only a small percentage of the total.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

spot check

A method of quality control in the manufacturing process in which the samples are selected in a random fashion and their quality ascertained. This ensures that the items selected are typical of the entire production run.
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He said the spot-checks would be in the hands of local authorities and operated by the police and the Vehicle Inspectorate.
The leaked report shows the kitchen spot-check, by Gardner Merchant boss Kathy Jones earlier this month, also found:
"A number of concerns were also highlighted during the cleanliness spot-check that were consistent issues for all three of the wards we visited, including: cluttered domestic rooms with dirty equipment and inappropriate items being stored and overfilled clinical waste bags."
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said CVS sold expired items including antacids, baby formula, cough medicine, energy drinks and foods including eggs, milk and yogurt in 20 of 45 stores in the state that his office spot-checked this summer.
Spot-checks are to be introduced after bosses were told of the abuse of Edinburgh Council's flexitime system.
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi, who is responsible for improving China's food and product safety, has spot-checked factories in southern China to ensure quality control, media reports said Friday.
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called for a "common-sense" easing of "complicated" spot-checks on food industry suppliers, required for the payments of European Union (EU) subsidies.
Cllr Berni Turner, executive member for the environment, said: "Spot-checks like these are essential to make sure fireworks, which can be dangerous in the wrong hands, are being sold safely and responsibly.
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