An example for the dimensions involved is as follows. If the original lot is 25 tonnes,
the bulk lot sample is probably 25 kg, which means that the quantity inspected is reduced
by a factor of 1000. Usually a sub-sample of 250 g is taken for further quantification, thus
reducing the inspected product by a factor of 100,000. In practice about 1 g of product
is represented in the solvent mixture which is directly used for quantification, so that in
this example only 1 g out of the original 25,000,000 g is used to estimate the mycotoxin
contamination of the entire lot.