Q Laboratories' Crowley Appointed to Technical Committee

Q Laboratories, Inc. Microbiology Research and Development Laboratory Supervisor Erin Crowley has been appointed to the MicroVal Technical Committee.  The Technical Committee is responsible for governing the validation studies performed through MicroVal, approval of the technical protocol for the validation studies, evaluation of the results of the validation studies, request for consideration of matrix extensions and/or inclusion of data from other studies, including from studies done under schemes other than MicroVal.

MicroVal is a European certification organization for the validation and approval of alternative methods for the microbiological analysis of foods, animal feeding stuffs, beverages and food environmental samples (water, sponges, swabs, etc.).  MicroVal validates and certifies alternative methods in order to show that they perform as well as internationally standardized methods, such as FDA, USDA, ISO and ASTM methods.  MicroVal certification of alternative methods will ensure their acceptance by governmental inspection laboratories and laboratories in the food industry, throughout Europe, thus facilitating commerce within the European Union. MicroVal Expert Laboratories perform comparative studies in order to validate the alternative methods as statistically comparable to the established method(s).