Samples collected for surveillance and monitoring purposes are often multi-component products for which there are no microbiological standards or guidelines. Interpreting the significance of the types and levels of microorganisms reported when these foods are tested may therefore be difficult. The purpose of this document is to provide assistance in the interpretation of microbiological analyse...

Calcineurin inhibitors may augment the effects of antifungal drugs in microbiological assays. We examined this interaction in a microbiological assay for posaconazole. No effect was observed. However, concurrent or recently discontinued treatment with other antifungal drugs caused false-positive results, emphasizing a limitation of microbiological assays for antifungal drug level measurement.

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION The objective of this chapter is to facilitate the implementation and use of alternative microbiological methods where this can lead to cost-effective microbiological control and improved assurance for the quality of pharmaceutical products. These alternative methods may also find a place in environmental monitoring. The microbiological methods described in the European ...

Sanitary inspection, water quality determination and data analysis and interpretation are essential elements in characterising the microbiological safety of water in recreational areas. Sanitary inspection is a necessary adjunct to water microbiological analysis. A well-conducted sanitary inspection can identify sources of microbiological hazards, microbiological water quality data confirm the ...

Microbiological food safety surveillance is a system that collects data regarding food contamination by foodborne pathogens, parasites, viruses, and other harmful microbiological factors. It helps to understand the spectrum of food safety, timely detect food safety hazards, and provide relevant data for food safety supervision, risk assessment, and standards-setting. The study discusses the mic...

Modeling a complex phenomenon such as the mind presents tremendous computational complexity challenges. Modeling field theory (MFT) addresses these challenges in a non-traditional way. The main idea behind MFT is to match levels of uncertainty of the model (also, a problem or some theory) with levels of uncertainty of the evaluation criterion used to identify that model. When a model becomes mo...

Introduction It is nearly 30 years ago that the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF) provided urgently needed guidance on the use of sampling plans and microbiological criteria for foods in international trade. With publications like “Microorganisms in Foods 2: Sampling for Microbiological Analysis: Principles and Specific Applications” (1) and now “Micro...

the effect of 10 and 25 kgy ?-irradiation on penicillin g plus procaine and sodium ampicillin has been assessed by different chemical and microbiological analytical methods. according to the chemical results obtained, the antibiotics showed a slight reduction in doses applied but the microbiological assays revealed that the activity of irradiated antibiotics did not reduce. microbiological stud...