SQF Edition 9 Code 2.4.4.2 Product analyses shall be conducted to nationally recognized methods or company requirements, or alternative methods that are validated as equivalent to the nationally recognized methods. Where internal laboratories are used to conduct input, environmental, or product analyses, sampling and testing methods shall be in accordance with the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17025, including annual proficiency testing for staff conducting analyses. We use Hygenia Insite Snap Swabs that get put directly into an incubator and looked at after 48 hours. For any presumptive positive hits, we send to an outside accredited lab for verification/validation of the presumptive positives. We are not doing actual pathogen testing, just an indicator test looking for pathogens. In other areas of our facility, we also send out swabs directly to an outside accredited lab. We do hands on retraining of our program yearly. We also dispose of the Insite Snap swabs properly. Are we technically still considered a laboratory? We do hands on retraining for the staff yearly, so does this cover the annual proficiency testing for staff?
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