ISO 4973:2023

Cosmetics — Microbiology — Quality control of culture media and diluents used in cosmetics standards

OVERVIEW

This document specifies the minimum requirements for quality control of microbiological culture media and diluents in order to demonstrate their ability to detect microorganisms and to ensure reliability of the microbiological test methods described in the ISO cosmetics microbiology standards.

This document describes mainly growth promotion and microbial control tests and is applicable to both commercially ready-to-use culture media and culture media prepared from dehydrated culture media or basic constituents in the user’s laboratory.

Other methods can be substituted provided that their equivalence has been demonstrated.

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PRODUCT DETAILS

Status Current
Edition 2023
No. of Pages 21
ICS Classification 07.100.40 Cosmetics microbiology
Committee ISO/TC 217
Available for Purchase For sale in Singapore only
Adoption ISO