Defined term · Quality and documentation
Sample provenance
The record of where an analysed sample came from and who selected it. A supplier-selected sample and an independently purchased one are different classes of evidence and the Institute labels them as…
§1Sample provenance
§1.2Category
Quality and documentation — Terms describing the documentary record of a manufactured material.
§1.3Related terms
- Third-party testing — Analysis performed by a laboratory independent of the supplier. Stronger evidence than a supplier-issued certificate, and weaker than analysis of an independently…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-168 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/sample-provenance/ · retrieved 30 July 2026