Response-to-Comments Posted for Microbiology Draft Standard (EL V1M5)
Date Posted: 9-16-2023
The TNI Microbiology Expert Committee is providing for your review and any further comment the following Response-to-Comments (R2C) document. This R2C presents all comments received within the prescribed comment period for the DS originally posted on 8/9/2021.
Response to Comments (Excel)
A number of these comments were deemed persuasive by the committee and will require a Revised DS to be prepared. Upon posting of that Revised DS, an additional comment period will be available for all interested parties. The R2C will again be utilized/expanded to include all additional comments received during the comment period and re-posted when all new comments have been addressed.
Any questions and/or concerns regarding the content of this initial R2C should be addressed to Cody Danielson ([email protected]) the Chair of the Microbiology Expert Committee and to Ilona Taunton ([email protected]), the Program Administrator for the Committee.

develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
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