Guidance

Non-pathogen scheme: recent intended results for distribution

This external quality assessment scheme is suitable for laboratories located on production sites where the introduction of pathogens may be inadvisable.

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Public Health England
Published
30 June 2014
Last updated
30 March 2021 鈥� See all updates

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The non-pathogen scheme is also suitable for laboratories that assess the microbiological quality of foodstuffs or perform shelf-life studies but don鈥檛 routinely examine for pathogens.

The examinations covered are:

  • Pseudomonas spp.
  • yeasts
  • moulds
  • coliforms
  • enterobacteriaceae
  • Escherichia coli
  • enterococci
  • lactic acid bacteria
  • aerobic colony counts at 30潞C

Updates to this page

Published 30 June 2014
Last updated 30 March 2021 show all updates

  1. Added Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP067.

  2. Updated 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP066'.

  3. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP065'.

  4. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP064'.

  5. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP063'.

  6. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP062, samples NP0179 and NP0180'.

  7. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP061, samples NP0177 and NP0178'.

  8. Added 'Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP059, samples NP0173 and NP0174'.

  9. Added non pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP058, samples NP0171 and NP0172.

  10. Added 'non pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP057, samples NP0169 and NP0170'.

  11. Added nonpathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP056, samples NP0166, NP0167 and NP0168.

  12. Added nonpathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP055, samples NP0163, NP0164 and NP0165.

  13. Added Non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP054, samples NP0160, NP0161 and NP0162.

  14. Added non pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP053, samples NP0157, NP0157 and NP0159.

  15. Added non pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP052, samples NP0154, NP0155 and NP0156.

  16. Added non pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP051.

  17. Added non-pathogen scheme: intended results for distribution NP050, samples NP0148, NP0149 and NP0150.

  18. First published.

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