Standards Update: Quality Control of Culture Media for Food and Water Microbiology Labs (AS5140, ISO11133)

Standards Update: Quality Control of Culture Media for Food and Water Microbiology Labs (AS5140, ISO11133)

AS5140 has been updated, and the update was released in December 2022. This is the Australian adoption of ISO11133.

This presentation will cover the complexities of the Standards and their relationship to your own ISO17025 certifications; changes made to AS5140 since the last version; and the changes that will come via ISO11133 in the near future.

Presented by: Peter Traynor - Regulatory & Technical Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Peter Traynor is the ASM representative to Standards Australia FT-035 since 2008 and is the head of delegation from Standards Australia to ISO TC34/SC9/JWG5 since 2007. He is currently the ISO project leader for the international revision of ISO11133 and was previously the project lead for the revision of AS5140.

Peter is the National Convenor of the Culture Media Special Interest Group, ASM, since 2006. He is the senior author of the ASM Guidelines for Assuring Quality of microbiological media (four versions - medical, food and water, medical mycology, solid TB media) and an honorary Life Member, ASM.