Question

Inspection Enforcement: A county consumer affairs agency is responsible for inspecting scales at retail grocery stores, as well as weights shown on store-packaged meats , poultry, and fish. You are assigned to see if the agency's system for enforcing the results of its inspections is effective. Describe elements of a good inspection enforcement system.

Answer 1

Elements of a good inspection enforcement system are as follows:

• Quality control - proper QC ensures that no defect occurs and if it does, the defect is not allowed to pass on to the next process or level.
• Timely re-calibration of instruments - hereby eliminating the errors caused due to fault in calibration of instruments.
• Safety surveillance - Ensures that there is no scope of manipulation and the equipment has not been tampered with
• Access to unbaised information - The data is not altered or manipulated.
• Matching with standards - The product should be matching the industry standards and upto the market requirement.