# ISO 16140:2003 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO 16140:2003, item title is Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Protocol for the validation of alternative methods; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 16140-2:2016 | ISO 16140-1:2016; withdrawn / published date is 2003-04-30, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO 16140:2003 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Protocol for the validation of alternative methods _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO 16140-2:2016 | ISO 16140-1:2016
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2003-04-30 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 30158,IS,,ISO 16140:2003,Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Protocol for the validation of alternative methods,Microbiologie des aliments — Protocole pour la validation des méthodes alternatives,2003-04-30,1,['07.100.30'],ISO/TC 34/SC 9,9599,,"[54870,54869]","['en','fr']",74,"<p>ISO 16140:2003 defines the general principle and the technical protocol for the validation of alternative methods in the field of microbiological analysis of food, animal feeding stuffs and environmental and veterinary samples for the validation of alternative methods which can be used in particular in the framework of the official control, and the international acceptance of the results obtained by the

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).