Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

-          Circular Letter 2014-03

• EURL Lm Technical Guidance Document for conducting shelf-life studies on Listeria monocytogenes in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods (draft version 3)
• Accompanying note.

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

-          Circular Letter 2014-03

• EURL Lm Technical Guidance Document for conducting shelf-life studies on Listeria monocytogenes in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods (draft version 3)
• Accompanying note.

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dear Colleagues,

The EURL for Milk and Milk Products / Pasteurisation Tracers invites you to participate to the inter-laboratory proficiency trial organized by the end of March.

The aim of this trial is to assess NRLs’ ability to determine the alkaline phosphatase activity in cheese according to the method attached.

8 samples of cheese (6 soft cheese and 2 semi-hard cheese samples) will be submitted to the PT. The participants shall perform the analyses:

Dear Colleagues,

At the last annual workshops, we have kept you informed of the progress made in the certification (third-party validation) of the instrumental methods (Bactoscan and Bactocount) for the quantification of total flora in raw milk. This certification is undertaken by the certification body MicroVal (http://www.microval.org/), and the expert laboratory for the validation of these two methods is Qlip (NL).

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

-          Circular Letter 2014/01,
-          the link of the enquiry to be filled out ideally by 25/01/2014 but before 10/02/2014:
 https://www.enquetes.anses.fr/formation2/EURLLm-InventoryoftypingmethodsforListeria/questionnaire.htm?aspxid=BsSLGg7G/xqCAhsVKtWvQsiaLJDxom+k&&key=FKI-BFMALDFSRD&auto=1

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• Circular Letter 2013/17
• Report of the development of a set of Listeria monocytogenes strains for conducting challenge tests (V0-20/12/2013)

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dr Bertrand LOMBARD
Sub-director in charge of reference activities, manager of European Union-Reference Laboratories Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococci and Milk