Revised Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian standard (Part 4) is identical with ISO 16140-4 : 2020 ‘Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 4: Protocol for method validation 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 3 Protocol for the verification of reference and validated alternative methods implemented in a single laboratory

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