Guidance

Environmental swab scheme: reports

This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely examine environmental swabs.

Documents

Environmental swab scheme: report for hygiene indicator organisms

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Environmental swab scheme: report for pathogens relating to outbreak

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Details

This scheme is suitable for laboratories that analyse:

  • swabs for hygiene indicator organisms from both random and template areas
  • swabs for pathogens

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2015
Last updated 21 October 2019 + show all updates
  1. Added 'Hygiene indicator organisms' and 'Pathogens relating to outbreak' reports.

  2. Added 'Environmental swab scheme: report'.

  3. Added 'Environmental swab scheme: distribution ES13 report'.

  4. Added 'Environmental swab scheme: distribution ES12 report'.

  5. Added 'Environmental swab scheme: distribution ES10 report'.

  6. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES9 report.

  7. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES8 report.

  8. Updated an environmental swab scheme: distribution ES7 report.

  9. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES6 report.

  10. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES5 report.

  11. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES4 report.

  12. Added environmental swab scheme: distribution ES2 report.

  13. First published.

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