SPADA Meeting Book

AOAC STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON  AGENT DETECTION ASSAYS (SPADA) Bacterial Strain Verification Working Group Co‐Chairs:  Linda Beck, JRAD and Shanmuga Sozhamannan, DoD, JPEO, JPMG, DBPAO Presentation: Guidelines for Verifying and Documenting the  Relationships Between Microbial Cultures  August 13, 2019

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Bacterial Strain Verification Working Group Scope of Work

Develop a consensus standard to provide confidence and assurance in the identification of the strains being utilized in testing. A consensus standard would improve the credibility of validation test results since evaluators will have a standard procedure recognized by the community that can be used to authenticate the strain of the cultures used in assay validation.