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.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.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.