Application Note – Microbiology N.5 – Microbiological Monitoring of surfaces by RODAC Contact Plates
The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure is to describe a program that will adequately measure the efficacy of disinfection of animal quarters and equipment in each laboratory animal facility.
Proper sanitation and disinfection are important to any program of animal care. The Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals include provisions for appropriate sanitation and disinfection of animal quarters and equipment. In this regard it is essential that the efficacy of disinfection procedures be monitored to assure adequate inactivation of potentially pathogenic microbes.
The Guide lists microbiologic monitoring as a direct way of measuring the efficacy of the disinfection of laboratory equipment.