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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