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).
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.Request for Comments on the Revised Draft Standard V1M5 Management and Testing Requirements for Laboratories Performing Environmental Analysis; Microbiological Testing Requirements
Date Posted: 6-1-2026
The TNI Microbiology Expert Committee is providing for your review and comment the following documents:
- A revised Draft of TNI Module 5, Microbiological Testing Requirements that has been modified consistent with the Committee's Notice of Intent to Modify (NOI) this Standard. Click here to view PDF.
- A Summary of Changes with Justification for those changes. Click here to view PDF.
The comment period is open for sixty days (i.e., until 07-31-2026), in accordance with the Consensus Standards Development SOP 2-100 [link to SOP]. Please send your comments and proposed revised text to both Cody Danielson Committee Chair ([email protected]) and Paul Junio, the Program Administrator ([email protected]) for the Committee. All comments will be tracked by the PA, and commenters will be notified of the committee's response to the comment. If there are no persuasive comments received, the Draft Standard will become the Final Standard.