It's one of those things with the abbreviations in the test reports: Kst for short rods is not really self-explanatory in the case of the English term small rod-shaped bacteria. Nevertheless, in order to avoid confusion in the process of order processing, we use the abbreviations based on German-language terms, at least for the time being, also in reports in other languages. Below you will find a tabular overview of the abbreviations and symbols used in our test reports.

	German	English	Français	Italiano
<	less than	less than	moins de	meno di
>	greater than	more than	plus de	più di
A.	Thawing date	thawing date	date de decongélation	data di scongelamento
THERE	Direct approach	direct plating	frottis direct	striscio diretto
Dk	Diplococci	diplococci	diplocoques	diplococci
E.	Freeze Date	freezing date	date de congélation	data di congelamento
GW	limit	limit value	valeur limit	valore limit
H	manufacturing date	date of manufacture	date de fabrication	data di fabbricazione
Yeast	Yeast	yeast	levures	lievito
HW	Maximum value	highest value	valeur la plus élevée	valore più alto
K	Cocci	cocci	coques	cocci
CFU	colony-forming units	colony forming unit	unité formant colonie	unità formanti colonia
Kst	Short sticks	small rod-shaped bacteria	bâtonnets courts	bastoncelli corti
Lst	Long sticks	long rod-shaped bacteria	bâtonnets longs	batsoncelli lunghi
MF	Membrane filtration	membrane filtration	filtration on membrane	filtrazione a membrana
Best before	Best before date date	best before date	date de durabilité minimal	durata minima di conservazione
Mia.	Billions	billions	billion	miliardi
Million	millions	millions	millions	milioni
RW	Guideline	reference value	value of reference	valore di riferimento
Sch	Mould	molds	moisissure	muffa
T	Temperature at sampling	temperature during sampling	temperature pendant l'échantillonnage	temperature durante il campionamento
T (E)	Temperature at sample input	temperature at sample receipt	temperature à la reception de l'échantillon	temperature al ricevimento del campione
V	Use-by date	use by date	date limit de consommation	data di scadenza
Z	Time of sampling	sampling time	heure de l'échantillonage	tempo di campionamento