prEN ISO 20976-2

Microbiology of the food chain — Requirements and guidelines for conducting challenge tests of food and feed products — Part 1: Challenge tests to study growth potential, lag time and maximum growth rate prEN ISO 20976-2

Scope

This document sets out the protocols for conducting microbiological challenge tests for inactivation studies on vegetative bacteria and bacterial spores in the raw materials and ingredients, intermediate or end-products.
The use of this document could be extended to yeasts which do not form mycelium.