ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 22118 First edition 2011-07-15 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection and quantification of food-borne pathogens Performance characteristics Microbiologie des aliments - Réaction de polymérisation en chaine (PCR) pour la détection et la quantification des micro-organismes pathogenesdanslesalimentsCaracteristiquesdeperformance Reference number ISO 22118:2011(E) @ ISO 2011 py IHS under ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 22118:2011(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ ISO2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2011 - All rights reserved etworking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 22118:2011(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (IsO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through IsO technicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnicalcommitteehasbeer International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. rights. IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 22118 was prepared by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 275, Food analysis Horizontal methods, in collaboration with Technical Committee ISO/TC 34, Food products, Subcommittee Sc 9, Microbiology, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement). ii