Open AccessEvaluation of the environmental contamination in microbiology Which strategy to adopt?
Author(s) -
Éric Farfour,
Lucie Limousin,
Amandine Henry,
Emilie Cardot,
F. Karnycheff,
Didier Lecointe,
Émilie Jolly,
Marc Vasse,
Damien Mathonnet
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annales de biologie clinique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.167
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1950-6112
pISSN - 0003-3898
DOI - 10.1684/abc.2019.1424
Subject(s) - traceability , contamination , audit , accreditation , risk analysis (engineering) , business , environmental health , environmental science , environmental planning , computer science , medicine , biology , ecology , accounting , software engineering , medical education
The culture of micro-organisms exposes to the risk of microbiological contamination at all stages of the analysis: inoculation on culture media, incubation, and observation of cultures. During our accreditation renewal audit, a surveillance point was notified, regarding the lack of consideration of the risk of microbiological contamination. Its mastery mainly relies on cleaning/disinfection operations and their traceability. In addition, several strategies based on environmental sampling or indicators can be performed. We propose a risk analysis in order to present these strategies.