Abstract

  Main food-borne infections in Europe and in the world are caused by Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, the two most involved species of Campylobacteria. This is why, in 2018, BIPEA (Bureau Interprofessionnel d’Etudes Analytiques) launched a new proficiency testing scheme (PTS) to detect and enumerate Campylobacter species in poultry meat samples.

This proficiency test can be schematized by three main steps: preparation of homogeneous and stable samples, analyses by laboratories applying reference methods (ISO 10272 part 1 and 2 [1,2]) and/or alternative methods and statistical treatment of the data according to ISO 13528 standard [3].

Taking part in a proficiency-testing scheme allows laboratories to assess their performance for these analyses and compare their results with those from other laboratories. Therefore, these tests are crucial for laboratories to meet international ISO 17025 standard requirements [4].

Keywords: Proficiency Test Schemes; Laboratory Performance; Microbiology; Campylobacter; Detection; Enumeration

References

1. International standard: ISO 10272-1 - Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for detection and enumeration of Campylobacter - Part 1: Detection method.
2. International standard: ISO 10272-2 - Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for detection and enumeration of Campylobacter - Part 2: Colony-count technique.
3. International standard: ISO 13528:2015 - Statistical methods for use in proficiency testing by interlaboratory comparisons (2015).
4. International standard: ISO/IEC 17025:2005 - General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories (2005).
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Citation

Citation: Souad Ben Bari., et al. “Proficiency-Testing Scheme for Detection and Enumeration of Campylobacter in Poultry Meat". Acta Scientific Microbiology 3.12 (2020): 24-27.

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Copyright: © 2020 Souad Ben Bari., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.