Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• Circular Letter 2013/16
• Draft Version 3 (25 October 2013) for the revision of the EURL Lm TECHNICAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT for conducting shelf-life studies on Listeria monocytogenes in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods.

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dear Colleagues,

EURL Milk and Milk Products / Pasteurization Tracers invites you to participate to the inter-laboratory proficiency trial it organizes by the end of November this year.

The aim of this trial is to assess NRLs’ ability to determine the alkaline phosphatase activity in cheese according to the method attached.

Dear Colleagues,

The Circular letter N°2013/15 is available:

·         the circular letter N°2013/15 entitled “Dispatch of the report of the 2012 PT trial dedicated to Listeria enumeration”  (LIS-Cr-201315L.pdf);

·         the report (LIS-Cr-201315R.pdf);

·         the satisfaction questionnaire (LIS-Cr-201315Q.doc) to fulfill and send back to Damien.MICHELON@anses.fr  by 10/11/2013.

With best regards,

Adrien ASSÉRÉ

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• Circular letter 2013/10 “Invitation to the 2013 workshop on pasteurisation tracers in milk & milk products”,
• Reimbursement procedure,
• Documents for the 3 recommended hotels,
• Registration link: https://www.enquetes.anses.fr/formation2/MMPwsINvit/questionnaire.htm by fill out by 20 August 2013 .

Wishing you a nice summer,

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• circular letter 2013/09 “Invitation to the 2013 PT trial on counting of somatic cells in milk ”,
• information to participants.

With best regards,

Adrien

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• circular letter 2013/07 “Invitation to a training session on AP determination in cheese (fluorimetric method)”,
• Procedure for travel and stay cost reimbursement.

With best regards,

Adrien

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• circular letter 2013/06 “Report of the 2012 Proficiency testing trial on somatic cell counting  with EN ISO 13366-1”,
• report of the 2012 PT trial dedicated to Somatic Cell Count.

With best regards,

Adrien

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed :

• Circular letter 2013/05,

• Document “Criteria for the selection of raw data, to be taken into account to investigate harmonization of the conversion equations at European level”;

• Excel file to collect data.

Wishing you all a nice summer !

With best regards,

Bertrand

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Dear Colleagues,

We are organising in 2013 for the NRLs for Milk and Milk Products a training session on somatic cell count in raw cow’s milk by the reference method 13366-1. This 2 days session will be both theoretical and practical. It will take place in our Laboratory in Maisons-Alfort from 13 June at 9:00 to 14 June 2013 at 15:00. Please find attached the programme of the training session (MMP-Cr-201304D.pdf).