This International Standard gives guidelines for the evaluation of instrumental alternative methods for total bacterial count in raw milk from animals of different species.
NOTE The document is considered complementary to ISO 16140 and ISO 8196|IDF 128 (see Clause 2 and Reference ).
ISO 16297:2013 Referenced Document
ISO 16140-1 Microbiology of the food chain - Method validation - Part 1: Vocabulary*, 2016-06-01 Update
ISO 16140-2 Microbiology of the food chain — Method validation — Part 2: Protocol for the validation of alternative (proprietary) methods against a reference method — Amendment 1: Revision of qualitative MCS data evaluation, RLOD calculations in the ILS, cal...*, 2024-03-04 Update
ISO 16297:2013 history
2020ISO 16297:2020 Milk — Bacterial count — Protocol for the evaluation of alternative methods
2013ISO 16297:2013 Milk - Bacterial count - Protocol for the evaluation of alternative methods