AIMS Meeting Book_MYM2023

Additional Challenges in Validation of New Microbiology Technologies • Establish validation criteria (SMPRs and guidance) for novel methods • Tests for microbes that can’t be enriched o Viruses o Parasites • Microbial enumeration methods • How to standardize production of spiked samples for validation studies • Methods with more than one purpose (ddPCR, detection plus typing, risk testing) • Indicator organism testing • Strain typing methods

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midyear Meeting March 13 –17, 2023 | Gaithersburg, MD

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