SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

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

The yeast material is a critical part of the developing Quality Assurance infrastructure to support reliable, consistent results from the First Responder Community

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Overview

• Yeast as a surrogate for biothreat agents

• Mixed microbial reference materials

• Documentary standards

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