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Health Products and Food Branch
Ottawa
Part 5:
Guidelines to Verify Standard Food Microbiological Methods for
Implementation in Routine Testing
Microbiological Methods Committee
Microbiology Evaluation Division
Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Food Directorate,
Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada
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1. Application
The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the verification of standard food
microbiological methods in a laboratory. The following general requirements were elaborated from
national and international
procedures guidelines
(6.1 to 6.7).
2. Description
Verification is the provision of objective evidence that a given item fulfils specified requirements. In
the context of this document, verification applies to the implementation of a standard method for the
first time in a laboratory and serves to demonstrate the capacity of the laboratory to properly operate
it. This process can also be used for the reinstatement of a method after a period of disuse, or when a
standard method is updated. Verification is different from validation or familiarization.
3. Definitions
3.1
Standard Method
– A method that has been
exhaustively studied validated and described in
a clear and accurate the conditions of these tests. These methods are considered standard
reference method because they can be use to evaluate other method developed for the same
determination a method that has and found to meet all the requirement of the Compendium
of method or those of been accepted by an
authoritative bod
yies
and published in an
international, regional or national method repository. Canadian standard food microbiology
methods are published in the Compendium of Analytical Methods.
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