On 27 November 2018, Alexandra CAUQUIL, Project leader of the revision of EN ISO 6888 part 2, and Bertrand LOMBARD participated to the meeting of the Working Group 13 (of ISO/TC 34/SC 9) dedicated to the revision of 6888.

After the publication of the 2nd Amendment of the 1st part in July 2018 concerning the optional confirmation by RPFA, the purpose of this meeting was the harmonisation of the 3 parts of the Standard Methods.

At this stage the aim is to prepare the DIS for the 1st trimester 2019.

Next meeting of the working group 13 will be on 11 December.

Alexandra CAUQUIL & Noémie VINGADASSALON organised a training session held in Cyprus on 27-28 September.

This training session was dedicated to the detection of se genes in CPS strains by real-time PCR for 2 Cyprus NLRs :

• LCFAO of Cyprus (Marios Evangelou, Christina Kamilari, Elli Karavi, Christos Kourtis, Katiana Neophytou and Georgios Papageorgiou)
• SGL of Cyprus (Costas Arsenoglou and Maria Emmanouil)

We hope your summer period is going on nicely, with some time to rest!

We are pleased to inform you that Marie-Christine SALVI is back to Anses since mid-July, with now a long-term contract.  She is in particular back in the EURL CPS & Lm teams, in charge of administrative and financial aspects. She is doing her best to proceed as soon as possible with the reimbursement of eligible participants to the 2018 workshops and training courses.