The Panel Working Groups and main Panel met on 5/6 November. The Working Groups on Microbiology and Dosimetry/X-ray were particularly well attended with 50% more attendees than the April meetings. New guidance documents on sterility and sterilisation have been completed and will be issued shortly. The Panel also welcomed new individual members from our third continent, Africa. These are Stanley Acquah of the RTC in Accra, Ghana and Mohammed Mouhib of the INRA irradiation facility in Tangier, Morocco.

