Microbiological Analysis of Food and Water: Guidelines for Quality Assurance

1. Scope and Purpose. 2. Implementation of Quality Assurance Programmes. 3. People, Management and Organization. 4. Sampling. 5. Equipment. 6. Materials. 7. Quantitative Method and Procedure Assessment. 8. Analytical Quality Control in Microbiology. 9. Handling and Reporting Results. 10. Accreditation. Annex. Statistics for Quality Assurance in Food and Water Microbiology. Appendix A. Example of a membrane filter test, with statistical evaluation. Appendix B. Preparation of test sample for first-level quality control of plate and membrane filter counts, with statistical evaluation.