Guidance

Environmental swab scheme: recent intended results for distribution

This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely examine environmental swabs.

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Details

This scheme is suitable for laboratories that analyse swabs for:

  • hygiene indicator organisms from both random and template areas
  • pathogens

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Published 29 September 2015
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