| QA |
| Quality Assurance. |
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| QC |
| Quality Control. |
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| Qm |
| Quantitative maximum (maximum amount of a substance permissible in a food contact material such that the Specific Migration Limit cannot be exceeded). |
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| QMS |
| Quality Management System. |
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| QRA |
Quantitative Risk Assessment.
ALSO: Quantified Risk Analysis. |
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| QSAR |
| See Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship. |
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| quality assurance |
| All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide confidence that a product or a service will satisfy given requirements for quality. |
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| quality control |
| The operational techniques and activities (preventive, supervisory and corrective action) that are necessary in fulfilling quality requirements. |
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| QUANGO |
| Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. |
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| Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship |
(QSAR)
QSARs are based on a comparison of the structure or some physico-chemical property of a substance (“descriptor”) with a measured endpoint which may be another physico-chemical property or a biological effect. QSARs are normally taken to mean a mathematical relationship between a descriptor and a biological or physico-chemical endpoint. |
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| QUAS |
| Quaternisation of Starch Producers Association. more |
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