Ohio Water Microbiology Lab
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OWML: QA/QC
Quality Assurance/Quality Control Manual: Ohio Water Microbiology
Laboratory
METHODS OF
ANALYSIS, MEDIA AND REAGENT PREPARATION, AND ANALYTICAL QUALITY-CONTROL
PROCEDURES
Methods of analysis, media
and reagent preparation and storage, and analytical quality-control procedures
are discussed in this section. Because microbiological analyses measure
constantly changing living organisms, the methods are inherently variable. Some
quality-control tools used by chemists, therefore, may not be available to the
microbiologist (American Public Health Association, 1998, Section 9020 A).
References of published microbiological methods are kept in a notebook in the
laboratory. Media-preparation instructions and method summaries written by the
Ohio Water Microbiology Laboratory (OWML) are kept in the reference notebook and
furnished as Appendices to this document.
Compliance and official methods
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