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Judgment & ambiguity · Decisions under uncertainty

A finished-product assay comes back out-of-specification, but the investigation can't cleanly pin it on lab error or on the batch — the retest is in-spec and the analyst can't reproduce the fault. The lot is worth a week of supply. Do you release, and on what basis?

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A finished-product assay comes back out-of-specification, but the investigation can't cleanly pin it on lab error or on the batch — the retest is in-spec and the analyst can't reproduce the fault. The lot is worth a week of supply. Do you release, and on what basis?

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