Sentence examples for incremental samples are from inspiring English sources
The incremental samples are combined to produce an aggregate sample.
In each shift sample of 8 hours, representing about 350 tonnes of soybean meal, 80 incremental samples are generated and pooled into one shift sample to be analysed.
Approximately 8 × 130 incremental samples were collected and the weight of each aggregate sample was approximately 4.5 kg.
To form an aggregate sample 6 × 350 g incremental samples were taken with spear at each of five locations.
In addition to the analysis of an aggregate sample of 10 kg composed of 100 g of each incremental sample, a portion of every incremental sample was individually analysed for OTA.
The sampler was operated by compressed air and an incremental sample was collected every 7 8 s for 2h, and by adjusting the frequency of sampling a representative sample with the specified mass can be formed from an arbitrarily sized lot (http://www.tagumatic.dk).
Depth incremental soil samples were collected at an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada benchmark site (20NB) located near the town of Grand Falls, New Brunswick.
MacArthur et al. (2006) demonstrated that increasing the number of incremental samples that are used to form an aggregate sample reduced the chances of accepting lots of dried fruit containing OTA at concentrations higher than a legislative limit of 10 μg kg−1.
The regulation also emphasises that incremental samples should be taken at various locations distributed throughout the sub-lot in an aim to obtain an unbiased sample to estimate the average OTA concentration in the lot (European Commission 2006a).
For official controls the sampling frequency (SF) is calculated according to Equation (5) and sets down that from every nth item an incremental sample should be taken.
With MALDI-MSI continual incremental sampling can be performed upon tissue taken directly from the body to identify cellular locations that contain the specific drug ion signatures of the compound in question [21].
