Evaluation of a fungal collection as certified reference material producer and as a biological resource center

Abstract

Considering the absence of standards for culture collections and more specifically for biological resource centers in the world, in addition to the absence of certified biological material in Brazil, this study aimed to evaluate a Fungal Collection from Fiocruz, as a producer of certified reference material and as Biological Resource Center (BRC). For this evaluation, a checklist based on the requirements of ABNT ISO GUIA34:2012 correlated with the ABNT NBR ISO/IEC17025:2005, was designed and applied. Complementing the implementation of the checklist, an internal audit was performed. An evaluation of this Collection as a BRC was also conducted following the requirements of the NIT-DICLA-061, the Brazilian internal standard from Inmetro, based on ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17025:2005, ABNT ISO GUIA 34:2012 and OECD Best Practice Guidelines for BRCs. This was the first time that the NIT DICLA-061 was applied in a culture collection during an internal audit. The assessments enabled the proposal for the adequacy of this Collection to assure the implementation of the management system for their future accreditation by Inmetro as a certified reference material producer as well as its future accreditation as a Biological Resource Center according to the NIT-DICLA-061.

Coleções vivas: as coleções microbiológicas da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

“…Em seguida foi realizada a avaliação do Acervo de Fungos da CMRVS de acordo com os critérios da ABNT ISO GUIA 34: 2012 correlacionados com a ABNT NBR ISO / IEC 17025: 2005, assim como sua avaliação como um Centro de Recursos Biológicos (CRB) de acordo com os requisitos da norma brasileira NIT-DICLA-061, que também tem como base o Guia de Boas Práticas para CRBs da OCDE e ABNT ISO GUIA 34: 2012. Esta experiência foi relatada em Forti et al (2016) 18 . MUSEOLOGIA & INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE Vol.5, nº9, Jan./ Jun.…”

“…Ver http://portal.fiocruz.br/pt-br/content/cole%C3%A7%C3%B5es-biol%C3%B3gicas. Coleção de Leishmania(CLIOC) 18 Ver daSilva et al 2011;Forti et al 2016. …”