Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed the report of the EURL representatives to the annual plenary meetings of ISO/TC 34/SC 9 and CEN/TC 275/WG 6, dealing with international and European standardization in food microbiology, which were held in Washington DC last June. Resolutions/recommendations taken are also appended.

I have represented EURL CPS at these meetings.

To note in particular:

1.       ISO meeting:

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed the report of the 8^th annual workshop of EURL/NRLs for CPS, which took place here from 4 to 6 June 2014.

Wishing you a good continuation of this summer,

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dr Bertrand LOMBARD
Head of team "coordination of reference activities", manager of European Union-Reference Laboratories Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococci and Milk

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to thank the participants to the proficiency testing trial dedicated to the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) types SEA to SEE (N° EILA / ANSES LSAL / CAT-BAC / 2013 / 03) for having taken the time to answer our satisfaction questionnaire sent on 23^th May 2014.

In fact, among 31 participants, 27 (87%) participated to this enquiry. Following the analysis of the replies, here is an overall view of the participants’ comments and our follow up: