Title: quality plan
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - quality plan
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08113
Status: current

Definition
Specification of the procedures and associated resources to be applied when and by whom to a specific object.

Notes
1) These procedures generally include those referring to quality management processes and to product and service realization processes.
2) A quality plan often refers to parts of the quality manual or to procedure documents.
3) A quality plan is generally one of the results of quality planning.

Related Terms
- quality management: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08109
- quality manual: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08111
- quality planning: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08114

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1036 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)

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Citation: Citation: 'quality plan' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08113
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