What is the difference between mix-up and cross-contamination?

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What is the difference between mix-up and cross-contamination?..

Answer / ali

Cross Contamination is the contamination of a starting material, intermediate or finished product with another starting material, intermediate or finished product.

Mix-up is mix of different items but not necessarily contaminated. For example, One finally packed bottle of batch X found within other finally packed bottles of batch Y.

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What is the difference between mix-up and cross-contamination?..

Answer / mukund

Cross-Contamination:
Cross-contamination is a contamination of starting material, intermediate or finished product with another starting material or a product during manufacturing process.

Mix-Ups:
Mix-ups is inadvertently mixing of one thing to another. It is a mistake that results from taking one thing to be other.

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