International Quantitative Bacterial Reference Material for ISO Labs

The National Testing and Accreditation Association (NATA) in Australia have endorsed the BioBall™ product range under the ISO Guide 34 standard. This makes BioBall™ the first international quantitative Reference Material available for microbiological testing in the world, and heralds a new era in the standardisation of bacterial testing.

Now that BioBall™ products are Guide 34 accredited, ISO accredited laboratories can use these products to significantly simplify their quality control procedures.

The BioBall product contains a precise number of bacteria in a water-soluble ball delivering unprecedented accuracy in Quantitative Microbiological Quality Control. BioBall products contain a mean of 28-33 cfu with a standard deviation of less than 3 in a variety of bacterial strains.

BTF has previously secured ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. This accreditation demonstrates that the laboratory procedures used to ensure the quality and precision of it's BioBall™ product range meet the same strict standards as those employed in BTF's customers' labs.