New Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian standard (Part 3) which is identical with ISO 16140-3 : 2021 ‘Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 3: Protocol for the verification of reference methods and validated alternative methods in a single laboratory’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Food Hygiene, Safety Management and Other Systems Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.

This Indian Standard is published in six parts which are identical adoptions of their corresponding ISO standards. The other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Vocabulary

Part 2 Protocol for the validation of alternative (proprietary) methods against a reference method

Part 4 Protocol for single-laboratory (in-house) method validation

Part 5 Protocol for factorial interlaboratory validation of non-proprietary methods

Part 6 Protocol for the validation of alternative (proprietary) methods for microbiological confirmation and typing