As of March 22th, 2012, 107 microbiological
methods in the food industry as well as 3 antibiotic
detection methods are certified NF VALIDATION. All
the microbiological methods are validated according
to the EN
ISO 16140 standard protocol requirements.
During its meeting of March 2012, the NF VALIDATION
Technical Committee approved by vote:
• The validation renewal (without modification)
of Simple Method for Salmonella
(AES Chemunex).
• The validation extension of the following
methods:
- BAX Salmonella spp (DuPont Qualicon)
for the use of BAX version 2.9 software
- iQ-Check Salmonella II, iQ-Check Listeria
monocytogenes II, iQ-Check Listeria spp and iQ-Check
E.coli O157 :H7 (BIO-RAD) for the use of
CFX96 Deep Well Touch instrument and CFX Manager
IDE version 1.2 software.
Next meetings of NF VALIDATION Agribusiness Technical
Committee:
10th and 11th May 2012, 5th and 6th July
2012, 6th and 7th October 2012, 29th and 30th November
2012.
