The ISO 16140 series is dedicated to the validation and verification of microbiological methods. These International Standards are designed to help food and feed testing laboratories, test kit manufacturers, competent authorities, and food and feed business operators to implement microbiological methods.
Learn more about ISO 16140 series, and the necessary stages of validation and verification of methods before use.
The technical stages of the establishment of a new standardized reference method or the revision of an existing standardized reference method have been described in standard ISO 17468.
Validation required after revision depends on the nature of the changes in the method.
Learn more about ISO 17468, major and minor changes and their impact.
ISO 16140-3:2021 describes procedures for method verification, a requirement for ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratories. The validation status of ISO standardized reference methods developed by ISO/TC 34/SC 9 shall be known before you can apply ISO 16140-3. This overview will help you to verify your methods according to ISO 16140-3.