Guidance

Standard scheme: sample instruction sheets and video

This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely test for a range of food-borne pathogens and indicator organisms.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 18 April 2014
• Last updated: 23 October 2019
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  1. 23 October 2019

     Updated with recent translated documents.

  2. 6 January 2015

     Updated Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (German), sample instruction sheet (Italian), sample instruction sheet (Portuguese) and sample instruction sheet (Spanish).

  3. 18 December 2014

     Updated 'Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (French)'

  4. 12 December 2014

     Sample instruction video added.

  5. 18 April 2014

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 15 May 2025

This content is no longer up-to-date. For the most recent information, see the Food and Environment Proficiency Testing Unit (FEPTU) website.

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Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (English)

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Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (French)

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Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (German)

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Standard scheme: sample instruction sheet (Italian)

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Details

Standard scheme sample instruction video.

The examinations covered are:

• aerobic colony counts
• Bacillus cereus
• Campylobacter spp.
• Clostridium perfringens
• Escherichia coli O157
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Listeria spp.
• Salmonella spp.
• Staphylococcus aureus
• coliforms
• enterobacteriaceae
• Escherichia coli.