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Summary of Yeast Surrogate Material
• Homogeneity, stability, and fitness-for-purpose of the lyophilized
format support development of the yeast as a reference material
• Heat inactivation may be appropriate if needed
• Next steps
- Yeast powder interlaboratory study
- Production batch for NIST RM
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The yeast material is a critical part of the developing Quality
Assurance infrastructure to support reliable, consistent results
from the First Responder Community
Overview
• Yeast as a surrogate for biothreat agents
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Mixed microbial reference materials
• Documentary standards
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