The Inter-European Union Reference Laboratories (EURLs) Working Group (WG) has been established by the European Commission with the aim to promote the use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) across the EURLs' networks, build NGS capacity within the EU and ensure liaison with the work of the EURLs and the work of EFSA and ECDC on the NGS mandate sent by the Commission. The WG includes all the EURLs operating in the field of the microbiological contamination of food and feed and is coordinated by the EURL for E. coli.
Membership of the Inter EURL WG on NGS:
EURL E. coli (coordinator)
EURL Listeria monocytogenes
EURL CPS
EURL Salmonella
EURL Campylobacter
EURL Parasites
EURL AR
EURL Food borne viruses
Observers: SANTE G4, EFSA, ECDC
The documents are meant to provide guidance to the laboratories in the area of application of NGS and have been produced by the working group with the aim of being diffused to all the networks of NRLs National Reference Laboratories. These documents are aggregated in the Zenodo community InterBiorisks-EURLs working group on NGS.
