2017 Mid-Year Meeting Voting & ERP Panels
D. Proposal for Representative Voting Members To develop the proposal for voting members that is representative of the registrants for the SPIFAN meeting. There is a maximum of 30 seats possible; however, with the number of registrants, 30 voting seats may be more than is needed to represent the stakeholder panel. There are 37 registered organizations of which 19‐25 organizations would be appropriate to ensure that the perspectives are covered. For 25 representatives and using the Broad Perspectives of Registrants as a based, 3% academia would allow for one (1) institution. Government is 20% of the registrants, and this would allow for five (5) agencies. As industry is 69% of the registrants, this would allow for 17 companies. With NGO being 8% percent of the registrants, this would allow for two (2) organizations. Adding the regional perspective, 49% of the registrants are from the US which would make 12 members representative of the stakeholder registrants from the US. Also, 29% of the registrants are European. Therefore, to represent Europe among the stakeholders require seven (7) voting members. These numbers need to balance with the regional perspective for the same set of registrants. Two voting member from New Zealand is representative of Oceania and one voting member of the other regions. Brazil may be represented by the US as the organization that is in Brazil is also in the US and the organization may opt to be represented by its US counterpart. China may also be represented by the organization’s counterpart in Switzerland or in the US.
RECOMMENDATION:
For the AOAC Official Methods Board to review and approved the recommended proposal in Table 2 for representative voting members for the SPIFAN meeting on Wednesday, March 15, 2017.
Table 2: Proposed Representative Voting Members Broad Perspective Specific Perspective
Region
Organization (s)
1. Academia 2. Government 3. Government 4. Government 5. Government 6. Government
Research Regulatory Research
Netherlands
RIKILT
US
US FDA
Uruguay
LATU
State Regulatory
US
FL Dept. Ag.
Reference Standards US
US NIST
Laboratory Standards
Argentina Netherlands New Zealand
INTI ISO IDF
7. NGO 8. NGO
IDF
9. Industry 10. Industry 11. Industry 12. Industry 13. Industry 14. Industry 15. Industry
Formula Formula Formula Formula Formula Formula Formula
US US
Abbott Nutrition Mead Johnson
Switzerland/China Nestle
US
FrieslandCampina
New Zealand
Fonterra
US
Perrigo‐PBM Nutritionals
France
Danone
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