---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 43.103"
title: "7"
number: "43.103"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/43.103"
---

# §43.103. Purpose and scope.

- (a) **This subpart contains selected single and double sampling plans for inspection by attributes.** They are to serve as a source of plans for developing sound specifications, standards, or sampling and inspection procedures.
- (b) The sampling plans of this subpart and corresponding operating characteristic curves are indexed by acceptable quality level, AQL. The AQL's expressed in percent defectives or defects per hundred units are:

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 29 FR 5870, May 5, 1964, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981.