# Commission Implementing Decision of 12 November 2013 on the monitoring and reporting of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic and commensal bacteria (notified under document C(2013) 7145) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/652/EU), Division 5: Quality control and storage of the isolates

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The laboratories designated by the competent authority to perform the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of the isolates included in the ... monitoring programme, shall be involved in a quality assurance system including proficiency test set up at national level, in identification, typing and susceptibility testing of the bacteria targeted by the ... monitoring of AMR.
Isolates shall be stored by the national reference laboratories for AMR at a temperature of – 80 °C for a minimum period of five years. Other methods of storage may alternatively be used provided that they ensure viability and absence of changes in strain properties.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/652/annex/part/A/division/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-652/annex/part-A/division-5
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