Quality Assurance/Quality Control

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-022887",
  "term": "Quality Assurance/Quality Control",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A system of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all technical, operational, monitoring, and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality.\n\n2. A system of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all EPA research design and performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality\" (EPA 1992, 23).",
  "abbreviation": "QA/QC",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms; Pesticides Glossary",
    "Environmental Modeling and Assessment Program (EMAP) Master Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/quality-assurance-quality-control/"
}