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Under a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standard for food contaminants, 3.5 ounces of tomato sauce can have up to 30 fl y eggs, and 11 ounces of wheat fl our can contain 450 insect fragments. How could statistical sampling be used to see that these standards of food hygiene are being met by producers?
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Under a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standard for food contaminants,
3.5 ounces of tomato sauce can have up to 30 fl y eggs, and 11 ounces of wheat fl our can contain
450 insect fragments. How could statistical sampling be used to see that these standards of food
hygiene are being met by producers? (Source: www.fda.gov)
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Sampling allows the FDA to state, within a margin of error and some level of confidence, that tomato sauce produced in the United States is meeting the standard.
The practice of picking individual members of a population or a subset of the population in order to draw statistical conclusions from those individuals and estimate the characteristics of the entire population is known as sampling.
The margin of error in the survey and the level of confidence in the results are two crucial statistics that can be used to evaluate how accurately the sample reflects the population.