---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 42.120"
title: "7"
number: "42.120"
heading: "Description and qualification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/42.120"
---

# §42.120. Description and qualification.


Skip lot sampling and inspection are special procedures for inspecting stationary lots in which only one-half or one-fourth of the lots offered for inspection are formally inspected. Skip lot sampling and inspection procedures may be instituted only when all of the following conditions are met:

- (a) When authorized by the Administrator and acceptable to the user and producer, if different from the user.
- (b) When inspection is origin inspection (see [§ 42.102](/cfr/7/42.102.md)).
- (c) **When all lots can be expected to be of essentially the same quality.**
- (d) When lots from the producer are currently on, or eligible to be on, either normal or reduced inspection.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 41 FR 42639, Sept. 28, 1976, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981.

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 203, 205, 60 Stat. 1087, as amended, 1090, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1622, 1624).