NCCLS eNews - 7 June 2004  (Plain Text Version)

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News
 Gary L. Myers, Ph.D., FACB Presents NCCLS Harmonized Terminology Database Session at CSE
 NCCLS Mails Ballots for Delegate Vote on Organizational Name Change
 Press Releases
Standards Status
 Notice of Vote and Comment Deadline for Consensus Documents
 Recently Approved Documents
 Recently Distributed Draft ISO Standard
 Notice of Category B Documents
Events and Exhibits
 Meeting Calendar
 Upcoming Events and Exhibits
Membership
 Join Us
 New and Sustaining Members
 Update Your Subscriptions


Recently Approved Documents

(I/LA23-A) Immunoassay Systems; (M31-S1) Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Supplement

NCCLS is pleased to announce that the following documents have been approved by the Board of Directors for publication.  See the text following this list for information on options for member and nonmember organizations to obtain copies.

I/LA23-AAssessing the Quality of Immunoassay Systems: Radioimmunoassays and Enzyme, Fluorescence, and Luminescence Immunoassays; Approved Guideline
This guideline addresses components for harmonizing and assessing the quality of immunoassay systems for several commonly used dose-response indicator categories, e.g., radioisotopes, enzymes, fluorescence, luminescence, reagents, and experimental components criteria essential to characterizing an immunoassay.

M31-S1Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk and Dilution Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria Isolated from Animals; Informational Supplement
This document provides updated tables for the NCCLS antimicrobial susceptibility testing standard M31-A2.

-Second Notice-

M44-AMethod for Antifungal Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing of Yeasts; Approved Guideline
This document provides newly established methodology for disk diffusion testing of Candida spp., criteria for quality control testing, and interpretive criteria.


The NCCLS procedures have been designed to ensure that consensus has been achieved when a standard or guideline is published at the approved level. This means that a document has been rigorously reviewed by the authoring subcommittee, the area committee overseeing the project, the Board of Directors, and the medical-testing community which participates in the consensus process by carefully reviewing and commenting on the standard or guideline. The listed approved consensus documents are available for purchase.

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