Certificate of analysis: difference between revisions
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| 7 | The document's evidential standing follows from who issues it. '''A certificate is a claim by its issuer about material it is selling.''' That is not a criticism: a claim made in writing, against a named lot, by an identifiable party, is a substantially stronger thing than no claim at all, and it is checkable in ways a verbal assurance is not. It is simply not the same as an independent measurement, and the two are frequently conflated.{{r|iso17025}} | 7 | The document's evidential standing follows from who issues it. '''A certificate is a claim by its issuer about material it is selling.''' That is not a criticism: a claim made in writing, against a named lot, by an identifiable party, is a substantially stronger thing than no claim at all, and it is checkable in ways a verbal assurance is not. It is simply not the same as an independent measurement, and the two are frequently conflated.{{r|iso17025}} |
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| + | 9 | This article describes what the document normally contains, which fields carry information and which are decorative, how a certificate relates to an independently obtained result, and what a purchaser can reasonably ask for beyond it. | |
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| 9 | == Fields and what each establishes == | 11 | == Fields and what each establishes == |
| 10 | A certificate that is useful for anything carries at least seven fields. Each of them answers a question that cannot be answered from any of the others. | 12 | A certificate that is useful for anything carries at least seven fields. Each of them answers a question that cannot be answered from any of the others. |