Quality Control for Microbiological Media and Reagents

The webinar will discuss best QC practices and procedures for verifying the suitability and performance characteristics of microbiological media and reagents.

Why Should You Attend:

Many laboratories are unsure about which QC practices are needed to assess media performance, to meet not only their requirements, but also the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025: 2005.

During this webinar, we will discuss a practical QC approach for in-house prepared and/or commercially purchased media and reagents specifically applicable to microbiology laboratories.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, attendees will learn:

• To appreciate intrinsic and extrinsic factors which can affect the performance of culture media and reagents
• To identify Control Points (CP) and Critical Control Points (CCP) in media quality assessment
• To develop appropriate Quality Control Practices for CCPs to evaluate the acceptability of media and reagents for laboratory use

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Control Points
• Critical Control Points
• QC from purchase to disposal
• Sterility
• Productivity
• Selectivity

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to:

• Microbiological bench analysts
• QA managers
• Laboratory managers/supervisors and
• QC practitioners
• Instructors Profile:
• Michael Brodsky, has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 41 years. He is a Past President of the Ontario Food Protection Association and AOAC International. He serves as Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC OMA and the AOAC Research Institute, as a reviewer for Standard Method for the Examination of Water and as a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He is also a lead auditor/assessor in microbiology for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) and is a member of the Board of Directors.