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    {
      "question": "Can I audit your lab?",
      "answer": "Qualified customers and partners with a signed NDA can request a remote video walkthrough or an on-site visit; contact editors@proudtek.com. We do not currently publish raw logs for confidentiality reasons, but summaries of sample-level percentile distributions are available on request for any number we publish."
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      "question": "Why do you report p10 / p50 / p90 instead of a 'maximum cycles' number?",
      "answer": "A peak number is not actionable for procurement. p10 tells the laundry operator what the worst 10% of tags will do, which is what determines shrinkage budgeting; p50 is the median; p90 is what the best tags can reach. Reporting only the peak number is a pattern that reliably misleads buyers into under-budgeting for replacement stock."
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      "question": "How do you decide which numbers become published benchmarks vs. internal QA?",
      "answer": "A ProudTek lab test is publishable only after (a) a second operator has repeated the test on a separate day, (b) the raw data is archived in our lab database with test-ID, operator, instrument serial and environmental log, and (c) the editorial board has signed off. Internal QA numbers that fail any of these three gates are not published."
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      "question": "Do you retract numbers?",
      "answer": "Yes. If a number was wrong at publication (wrong sample size, wrong condition, wrong arithmetic) we retract or revise it and log the change at /about/corrections/ with the original value, the corrected value and the date."
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