Meets or Exceeds
I would be cautious about the interchangeable use of the terms meets or exceeds in a complex substance or system. Whether its a hydro-carbon or a composite structure, its the balance that's important. The spec is based on the knowledge that in balance (meets) it works. Change something (an ingredient or structural stiffness) and you no longer can be sure that it will perform acceptly in the common situations like it did before.
The assumption is that the product has been analyized/tested with variations within the acceptable range of "meets"