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

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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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