The update of the regulations introduces new methods for detecting Legionella

Last Thursday, May 11, the first of the technical conferences on updating the UNE100030 Standard took place in Madrid, organized by the National Association of Environmental Health Companies (ANECPLA), the Federation of Indoor Environmental Quality Companies (FEDECAI) and Aqua Spain. The event included the participation of different professional profiles within the prevention and treatment of legionellosis, highlighting the presence of analysis laboratories, water maintenance and treatment companies, certification entities and inspectors and technicians from the Public Administration. The success of participation was such that a new information day has already been organized in Barcelona on June 29.

Carlos Ferrer, General Director of Biotics and active member of the AEN/CTN 100 – AIR CONDITIONING committee that has updated the standard, made a presentation highlighting the possibility contemplated by this new standard of using alternative methods to cultivation to analyze Legionella, as long as they are validated and certified by competent organizations. as would be the case of Legipid®, the kit for rapid detection and quantification of Legionella spp. based on an immunomagnetic separation. During his speech, Ferrer stressed how “after intense work of two and a half years, an updated, complete and useful standard for the prevention and control of Legionella has been achieved.” As a result of this work, he contemplates the reality of the state of the art and its trends, in line with the real needs of the market.

The main objective of these technical meetings is to publicize and explain the key issues of the new regulatory framework established in Spain in the professional field of the prevention and control of Legionella in water installations, with the entry in force in April 2017 of the new UNE 100030:2017 Standard, which establishes the hygienic-sanitary criteria for the prevention and control of legionellosis.

Updating the standard introduces new methods to detect Legionella

On Thursday 11 May the first of the technical events about updating Standard UNE100030 by the Spanish National Association of Environmental Health Companies (ANECPLA), the Federation of Interior Environmental Quality Companies (FEDECAI) and Aqua España, was held in Madrid. Different professional profiles were found at this event, within the field of preventing and treating Legionnaires' disease, and the presence of testing laboratories, water maintenance and treatment companies, certification bodies, and inspectors and technicians from the Public Administrations stood out. Participation was so successful that a new informative event has been organized in Barcelona for 29 June.

Carlos Ferrer, the General Director of Biotics and an active member of the AEN/CTN 100 – CLIMATIZATION Committee that has updated this Standard, gave a talk that stressed the possibility contemplated in this new Standard of using alternative methods to culture ones to analyze Legionella, provided they have been validated and certified by competent organizations as with Legipid®, a kit used to quickly detect and quantify Legionella spp. based on immunomagnetic separation. During his talk about it, Ferrer emphasized that “after intense work over a 2-and-a-half-year period, the complete and useful Standard has been updated for the prevention and control of Legionella.” As a result of such work, the real status of both the technique and its trends is considered in accordance with the market's real requirements.

The main objective of these technical encounters is to make known and explain the key questions of the new Standard framework established in Spain in the professional domain of preventing and controlling Legionella in water facilities with the new UNE 100030:2017 Standard, which came into force in April 2017 and establishes the hygiene-sanitary criteria to prevent and control Legionnaires' disease.

The update of the regulations introduced into our Legionella detection methods

The 11th of May will be held in Madrid, with a great success in assistance, the first of the technical conferences organized by Anecpla (National Association of Environmental Health Companies), Fedecai (Federation of Environmental Quality Companies in Interiors) i Aqua España, on the updating of the UNE 100030:2017 Standard that will apply to these months. It will be a very fruitful experiment in that they will donate appointments with different professional profiles in the prevention and treatment of the legionel·losi (analysis laboratories, water maintenance and treatment companies, certification entities, inspectors and technicians of the public administration, etc.).

Carlos Ferrer, general director of Biotics The active member of the AEN/CTN 100-Climatization committee that has updated the standard will make a presentation highlighting the possibility that this new standard contemplates of using alternative methods to cultivation to analyze the legion, as long as they are validated and certified. by competent organizations, as would be the case of Legipid®,The kit for the rapid detection and quantification of Legionella spp is based on an immunomagnetic separation. Ferrer stated, furthermore, that after an intense work of two years and mig, an updated, complete and useful standard has been achieved in prevention and control of legionel·la. The fruit of this work is to contemplate the reality of the state of the technique and its current trends, in accordance with the real needs of the market.

The main objective of these trobados of a technical nature is to provide information and explain the key questions of the new normative framework that is established in Spain in the professional field of prevention and control of the Legion in installations of "Aigua, with the entry into force in April 2017 of the new standard UNE 100030:2017 for which the hygienic and sanitary criteria are established for the prevention and control of the legionel·losi.

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