Overview

Why Should You Attend

Quality Control for Microbiological Media and Reagents.

Date: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 || Time: 01:00 PM EDT | 10:00 AM PST

Duration: 60 Minutes || Course Level: Intermediate

'Live' Webinar by Michael Brodsky

The webinar will discuss best QC practices and procedures for verifying the suitability

and performance characteristics of microbiological media and reagents.

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 17025 certification.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. Areas covered in the webinar • Control points • Define critical control points • QC from purchase to disposal • Sterility • Productivity • Selectivity Learning objective Upon completion of this session, attendees will learn: • To appreciate intrinsic and extrinsic factors which can affect the performance of tissue culture media • 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

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Who will benefit

• Microbiological Bench Analysts

• QA Managers

• Laboratory Managers

• Laboratory Supervisors

• QC Practitioners

• Analytical Support Staff

• Laboratory Quality Development

Speaker profile

Michael has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 42 years.

He is a Past President of the Ontario Food Protection Association (OFPA),

the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) 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

Wastewater 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 Vice-chair of the CALA Board of

Directors.