EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN PLANT PROTECTION ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE ET MEDITERRANEENNE POUR LA PROTECTION DES PLANTES
EPPO Workshop on Accreditation 2014-02-18/20
Draft Programme
Monday 2014-02-17
Registration 17.30-19.00
Novotel Hotel, Fewster Way, Fishergate, York YO10 4FD
For participants staying in, or near the Novotel, and who will arrive before 19.00 on Monday advance registration is
possible at the Novotel. For other participants registration is possible on Tuesday morning at Fera.
Tuesday 2014-02-18
Session 1 General introduction to Quality Assurance and accreditation
08.30-09.00
09.00-09.15
09.15-9.45 Françoise
Petter
09.45-10.10 To be
confirmed
10.10-10.35 David
Galsworthy
10.35-11.05 Coffee break
Fera, GB
EPPO
Proficiency testing
group
Fera, GB
Registration
Welcome and Objectives of the meeting
EPPO Standards on Quality Assurance and Interlaboratory
Comparisons (Proficiency Testing and Test Performance
Studies)
Logistics in the Provision of Proficiency Testing
Quality systems – what sort of system do we need?
Session 2 Experiences of laboratories with establishing accreditation
11.05-11.30 Gunita
Bokuma
State Plant Protection Experience with establishing accreditation in the National
Service, LV
Phytosanitary Laboratory in Latvia
11.30-11.55 Natalia
Sherokolava
All-Russian Plant
Quarantine Centre,
RU
GEVES, FR
Russian experience of obtaining accreditation in plant
quarantine diagnostics
National Institute of
Biology, SI
A simple, descriptive assessment of uncertainties of
qualitative real time PCR
13.45-14.10 Valmir
Duarte
Agronomica Laboratorio de
Diagnostico
Fitossanitario e
Consultoira
Advantages/disadvantages of a private laboratory to meet
the quality system: a Brazilian experience
14.10-14-35 Mark
Buimer
Naktuinbouw, NL
Experience of NAKT with ISO 17025 and ISTA accreditation
11.55-12.20 Valerie
Grimault
12.20-12.45 Natasa
Mehle
Experience of the GEVES laboratory with ISTA accreditation
since 2001
12.45-13.45 Lunch
Lunchbreak
Session 3 Flexible scope in plant pest diagnostic accreditation
14.35-15.00 Marianne
National Plant
Van Der Blom Protection
Organisation, NL
Phytosanitary focused (flexible) scope
Session 4 Accreditation and new developing diagnostic tools
15.00-15.25 Bart Van De
Vossenberg
15.25-15.50 Maja
Ravnikar
15.50-16.20 Coffee
Lunchbreak
National Plant
Protection
Organization, NL
National Institute of
Biology, SI
Validation of DNA barcoding tests for the identification of
plant pests and plant pathogens in diagnostic laboratories
Determining critical points in validation of isothermal LAMP
for accreditation
Session 5 Auditing a driver for permanent improvement?
16.20-16.45 Geraldine
Anthoine
16.45-17.15 Aude
Chabirand
Laboratoire de la
santé des végétaux,
FR
Laboratoire de la
santé des végétaux,
FR
Title will be chosen based on feedback from registering
participants
Statistics introduction
Poster session – 17.15-18.00
Wednesday and Thursday 2014-02-19/20
Practical sessions and sharing experience sessions
Three parallel practical sessions will be organized. Each session will last half a day as follows:
Wednesday 2014-02-19: 9.00-12.30 and 13.30-17.00
Thursday 2014-02-20: 8.30-12.00
Participants will be allocated specific sessions (an email will be sent before the Conference).
Topic
Method validation (establishment of a
validation plan; example of
validation/verification of real-time PCR)
Organization of interlaboratory
comparisons
Statistical analysis ( in interlaboratory
comparison and method validation)
Session Leaders
Wednesday
09.00-12.30
Wednesday
13.30-17.00
Bart van de
Vossenberg, Lynn
Laurenson
Group A
Group B
Group C
Petra Mueller,
Sven Inghelbrecht,
Natasa Mehle
Aude Chabirand
Group B
Group C
Group A
Group C
Group A
Group B
Thursday 2014-02-20
13.00-16.00
Plenary session with questions and answers on Quality Assurance (including metrology)
Thursday 2014-02-20
16.00-17.00
Conclusions and recommendations
Thursday
8.30-12.00