AOAC ISPAM Meeting eBook, March 17 2015

ISPAM Salmonella Methods Harmonization Working Group

Thomas Hammack

Chief Microbial Methods Development Branch Division of Microbiology Office of Regulatory Science Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Background

• ISPAM Salmonella Methods Harmonization Working Group formed in January 2015 – Formed to determine how and if the US and ISO reference methods for Salmonella can be harmonized • 3 Teleconferences • Accomplishment to date – Drafting committee has developed a charge for the working group