When a Medium Needs to Be Quality Controlled Because It

question 9

Multiple Choice

When a medium needs to be quality controlled because it was prepared in house or because it is complex, all the following rules must be followed, except:

• A) Only media not specified in Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines should be tested.
• B) The medium should be tested for sterility and pH.
• C) The organism selected for quality control testing should represent most fastidious organisms for which the medium is designed.
• D) Testing techniques should be different for primary plating media than for biochemical or subculturing media.

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