Peer Review Digest

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Sara May, The Pennsylvania State University – NEPDN, Swarnalatha Moparthi, North Carolina State University – SPDN, and Samantha Fieweger, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection - NCPDN 
The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025

Accreditation Corner

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The Communicator: Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
 

Clarifying Document Repository vs. Version Control

This month's Accreditation Corner will briefly clarify the difference between a document repository and document revisions (and version control), since several questions have come up recently.

USDA APHIS PPQ Plant Pathogen Diagnostics Certification Program onboarding new labs

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USDA APHIS PPQ’s Plant Pathogen Diagnostics Certification Program (PPDCP) is onboarding new labs for program participation.

Onboarding typically includes an introductory meeting, submitting records that demonstrate your lab’s established quality and biosafety systems, a virtual walkthrough, a “pretest” consisting of small sample sets, and finally, proficiency testing to certify the lab’s diagnosticians.

NDR Dictionary Updates

Clarissa Balbalian (Chair, National Data Committee)
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 12, December 2024

The following lists document additions, modifications and deletions to the National Data Repository (NDR) Host and Pest dictionaries that were implemented in November. You can view updates to the NPDN host and pest dictionaries any time by logging into NDR clicking on the Dictionaries tab and selecting Updates from the dropdown menu.

Peer Review Digest

Sara May, The Pennsylvania State University – NEPDN, Swarnalatha Moparthi, North Carolina State University – SPDN, and Samantha Fieweger, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection - NCPDN 
The Communicator: Volume 5, Issue 12, December 2024

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