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BSI PD CEN ISO/TS 17728:2015

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Microbiology of the food chain. Sampling techniques for microbiological analysis of food and feed samples

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BSI 2015 28
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This Technical Specification applies to the collection of samples before submission to the laboratory for microbiological examination. It provides general instructions and specific requirements for obtaining samples and for transport to the laboratory.

Sampling plans are not included in the scope of this Technical Specification.

This Technical Specification applies to all food and feed products, including blocks of frozen products, carcasses (excluding surface sampling of carcasses), meat, and bulk products.

The following sample types are outside the scope of this Technical Specification:

  • milk and dairy products (see ISO 707 );

  • surface sampling of carcasses (see ISO 17604 );

  • samples from environmental surfaces (see ISO 18593 );

  • samples from the primary production stage (see ISO 13307 ).

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
6 Foreword
7 Introduction
9 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Sampling
10 3.2 Samples
11 3.3 Products
3.4 Sample handling
12 4 Principles and general requirements
5 Sampling plan
13 6 Personnel
6.1 General arrangements
6.2 Sampling personnel (samplers)
7 Sampling techniques
7.1 Equipment
14 7.2 Sampling techniques: General protocol
7.2.1 Bulk products (liquids, solids, powders, granules, etc.)
15 7.2.2 Packaged products (refrigerated, frozen, or ambient)
7.2.3 Refrigerated products
7.2.4 Separated frozen products
16 7.2.5 Blocks of frozen products (e.g. meat or fish)
7.2.6 Ambient products
7.2.7 Hot products
17 7.2.8 Consumer portions in restaurants
7.3 Sampling techniques for specific products
7.3.1 Live shellfish (bivalve molluscs, gastropods, echinoderms, and tunicates)
18 7.3.2 Fruits and vegetables, spices and herbs, coffee, tea, etc.
7.3.3 Whole eggs
7.3.4 Canned food
7.3.5 Feeds
7.3.6 Special cases, e.g. neck skin of poultry or carcass rinses
7.3.7 Spoiled samples
7.3.8 Sampling with automatic apparatus
19 8 Packing and labelling of samples
9 Preparation of a sampling form (sampling report)
10 Transport
20 10.1 Apparatus and equipment
10.1.1 Refrigerators, freezers, cool boxes, boxes or containers, cold packs
10.1.2 Temperature-monitoring equipment
10.2 Transport protocol
21 10.2.1 Transport by the laboratory
10.2.2 Transport by a contractor or courier
22 11 Reception at the laboratory
23 Annex A (informative) Flow chart of sampling
24 Annex B (informative) Method for sampling a frozen piece or block (from ISO 6887-1)
25 Bibliography
BSI PD CEN ISO/TS 17728:2015
$142.49