Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that EFSA has just published the report of Part B “Analysis of factors related to prevalence and exploring compliance” of  the analysis of the baseline survey on the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in certain ready-to-eat foods in the EU, 2010-2011: see web link below.

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce you the recent publication of 2 papers on the set-up of the EURL Lm database, one published in Journal of Microbiological Methods, and one in ANSES publication Euroreference: see enclosed.

Wishing you a nice continuation of summer,

With best regards,

Bertrand

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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,

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 MMP at these meetings.

To note in particular for the ISO meeting:

Dear Colleagues,

We are organising in 2014 for the NRLs for Milk and Milk Products a training session on somatic cell counting in raw cow’s milk by the reference method 13366-1. It will take place in our laboratory in Maisons-Alfort from 27 November at 9:00 to 28 November 2014 at 15:00.

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: