Benefits of participating in UKHSA’s food and water PT schemes:
One of the key benefits is that the scheme gives you confidence that your laboratory is performing its routine microbiology examinations correctly.
Participation provides an unbiased external assessment of your laboratory’s performance which can be used to reassure clients and help demonstrate competence to accreditation assessors.
- unique schemes provided based on current legislation
- inclusion of organisms such as Mycobacterium spp. in endoscope and cardiac cooler waters
- free of charge repeat samples
- access to expert food and water microbiologists
- bespoke scheme reports provided
- UKHSA and z-scores provided in some scheme reports
- ability to make extremely low-level samples
- on-going performance assessment in the reports
- samples provided in easy to use formats