2017 Mid-Year Meeting Voting & ERP Panels

MEMORANDUM 

DAT E: 

March 2, 2017 

TO: 

Members of the Official Methods Board 

FROM: 

Deborah McKenzie, Sr. Director, AOAC Research Institute 

SUBJECT: 

AOAC Research Institute  AOAC Official Methods of Analysis SM  (OMA) Expert Review Panel for Fertilizers‐Metals 

BACKGROUND  The AOAC Expert Review Panel for Fertilizers ‐ Metals will convene on Wednesday, March 15, 2017  from 1:00pm to 4:00pm during the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Mid‐Year Meeting.  The purpose of the meeting will be to review the following:  1) OMAMAN‐28 : Simultaneous Determination of Arsenic, Cadmium, Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt,  Copper, Iron, Lead, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Selenium, and Zinc in  Fertilizers by Microwave Acid Digestion and Inductively Coupled Plasma‐Optical Emission  Spectrometry Detection: Single Laboratory Validation  2) Discuss First to Final Action requirements and Feedbackmechanisms.  RECOMMENDATION  Currently, there are 15 members on the ERP for Fertilizers – Metals that were vetted by the Official  Methods Board to evaluate candidate methods for Fertilizers – Metals as per the Expert Review Panel  (ERP) Policies and Procedures.  The current roster is as follows: 

Last Name  1) Bartos  2) Clifford  3) Gopala 

First Name 

Mar‐17 

James  Robert 

Okay to attend  No Response  No Response  Okay to attend  No Response  No Response  No Response  Cannot attend  Okay to attend 

Anil 

4) Hall (Chair) 

William   Solomon 

5) Kariuki 

6) Liu 

Kai 

7) Oppermann  8) Parisi  9) Phillips  10) Provance‐ Bowley 

Uwe 

Salvatore 

Heidi  Mary 

Resigned 

11) Reba  12) Shelite 

Rick 

Okay to attend 

Kristopher 

Resigned 

13) Tan 

Rechel 

Cannot attend  Okay to attend  Cannot attend

14) Tsourides  15) Wegner 

Dion  Keith