Steve Sobek State of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Combined Lab Accreditation and MFRP Alliance Meeting March 10, 2015

Integrated Food Safety System-Goals Establish and implement national standards to ensure consistency across all jurisdictions. Maximize resource utilization and sharing across jurisdictions.

Trust and Certainty

MFRP Standard 10 – Laboratory Support “The State program has access to a laboratory that is capable of analyzing a variety of samples including food, environmental, and clinical samples.” “The State program maintains a list of services for routine and non-routine analyses such as biological hazard determinations.” “The State program has a contract or written agreement with its primary servicing laboratories.” Standard 10 is not a laboratory standard, it is a program standard about laboratories

Standard 10 – Building Trust Standard 10 is guidance to program managers to understand their own sampling needs and data quality objectives, and assure that the labs they use can meet those needs. Ultimately it is about maintaining a dialogue with the laboratory so that we promote consistency and develop trust and eliminate uncertainty.

Expectations of Consistent Quality

Standard 10 - Accreditation “The State program utilizes laboratories that have a current A2LA accreditation” “Or, the State program utilizes laboratories that have quality assurance programs that incorporate management and technical requirements found in ISO/IEC 17025:2005”

Benchmarks Something that can be used as a way to judge the quality or levels of other, similar things. To measure according to specified standards in order to compare it with and improve one’s own product.

Across Jurisdictions – ISO Accreditation standards are global – International Standards Organization (ISO) Non-biased third party designation of quality Commercial labs and food manufacturers see it as a normal course of business  A2LA Biological – 233 Labs, 75% provide commercial services  A2LA Chemical – 160 Labs, 60% provide commercial services

Accreditation – It’s Good Business Spinach 2006 – E. coli O157:H7 September 25, 2006 Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture Laboratory, detects and confirms the presence of E coli O157:H7 in spinach samples collected from patients by local health sanitarians. USDA – CIS, Cooperative Interstate Shipment

MFPR Standard 10 Promotes consistent quality Consistency promotes trust and certainty Trust and certainty promotes acceptance of data across jurisdictions Acceptance of data across jurisdictions is resource sharing and integration