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At B&L Ireland, the auditors, who were trained inspectors,
performed an audit of the finished sunglasses that had been
packaged to ensure that the products conformed to B&L's stan-
dards. The auditor selected a random sample of the sunglasses
from a particular lot and performed inspection functions with
respect to that sample similar to the 100-percent inspection
performed by inspectors. If the auditor had identified too many
defects in the samples inspected, the lot would have failed the
audit. In that event, all the sunglasses in the lot would have
been returned to the inspector for another 100-percent inspec-
tion, and the inspector would have corrected any defects iden-
tified and would have sent the lot back to the auditor for
reauditing.
B&L Hong Kong did not have any personnel devoted solely to
carrying out the audit function with respect to finished sun-
glasses. Its cleaners, who cleaned each sunglass unit with a
hand cloth following the washing process, and its packers were
trained in inspection procedures needed to perform the audit
function. The cleaners and packers performed inspection func-
tions similar to the inspections conducted by B&L Ireland's
auditors. However, rather than inspecting only a random sample
of each lot, each pair of sunglasses at B&L Hong Kong received a
second inspection conducted by the cleaners and packers.
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