Dear Colleagues,

We are organising in 2013 for the NRLs for Milk and Milk Products a training session on somatic cell count in raw cow’s milk by the reference method 13366-1. This 2 days session will be both theoretical and practical. It will take place in our Laboratory in Maisons-Alfort from 13 June at 9:00 to 14 June 2013 at 15:00. Please find attached the programme of the training session (MMP-Cr-201304D.pdf).

During this training, the modified Newman-Lampert stain solution will be used as reagent (the use of fluorescent microscope is excluded) with circular slides.

As our maximum capacity is 4 trainees, a selection of participants may be therefore necessary. In that case, priority would be given to:

·         NRLs having obtained unsatisfactory results during 2012 PT trial,

·         NRLs registered for the 2012 session and not selected to attend.

Please note that the travel and stay costs of the participants won’t be funded by EC through us.

If you wish to participate, we would appreciate if you could fill out the participation form, by 15 May 2013, at the following link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHc5RkUyV2lUZVhVaDViUkJabVJvYXc6MA

Yours sincerely,

Adrien ASSERE