BS EN ISO 13843:2017

This standard BS EN ISO 13843:2017 Water quality. Requirements for establishing performance characteristics of quantitative microbiological methods is classified in these ICS categories:

• 07.100.20 Microbiology of water

This document deals with characterization of microbiological methods. In terms of this document, characterization means the study of parameters that can be measured to describe how the method is likely to perform in a given set of conditions, which can be described as performance characteristics. The document describes procedures for the determination of performance characteristics which can be used for subsequent validation or verification of methods.

The emphasis is on selective quantitative methods and this document applies to all types of water. For methods that are not based upon direct microscopic count, colony count or most probable number, the applicability of the procedures described in this document should be considered carefully.