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Quality assurance (QA) is a compendium term that broadly encompasses all a brewer’s effort to assure a consistent product in the marketplace. It ranges over such diverse things as brewery design, layout and maintenance, brewer education and training, plant sanitation, raw materials quality and controlled processing parameters, quality control (QC) specifications (analytical values), born-on and best-by dates, uncompromising attention to detail, and continual review of quality records and practices, and so on. A more contemporary term might be Total Quality Management (TQM); QA is recognized in such formal programs as ISO 9000/9001, U.K. B55750, U.S. MIL-Q-9858 etc.
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Lewis, M.J., Bamforth, C.W. (2006). Sanitation and Quality. In: Essays in Brewing Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33011-9_14
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