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Glossary

What is Critical defect?

A defect serious enough to make a garment unsafe, illegal to sell, or unusable by the customer; a single critical defect can fail the whole inspected lot.

This term in other languages

Arabicعيب حرج
FrenchDéfaut critique
TurkishKritik kusur

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Classifying a defect as critical, major or minor and why the classification changes the response

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