Dear Colleagues,

It was a real pleasure to see you at the recent workshop of EURL/NRLs Lm in Teramo. This meeting has opened promising perspectives in term of future research collaborations between ourselves. We would like to thank you a lot for your great interest to collaborate with EURL Lm.

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

-          Circular Letter 2014-06

• Report of pilot PT trial on challenge test for Listeria monocytogenes.

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dr Bertrand LOMBARD
Head of mission "coordination of reference activities", manager of European Union-Reference Laboratories Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococci and Milk

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the link to the EFSA/ECDC EU Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne Outbreaks in 2012, in particular on listeriosis cases and Lm in food. It will be presented at our coming workshop by Valentina RIZZI, from EFSA:

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3547.htm

Looking forward seeing you soon in Teramo,

With best regards,

Bertrand

Dear colleagues,

By circular letter 2012/03 dated 17/02/2012, we have sent you the EURL Lm Guidance document to evaluate the competence of laboratories implementing challenge tests on the growth potential of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods” (https://eurl-listeria.anses.fr/en/minisite/listeria/eurl-lm-technical-gu...).

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