2017 Mid-Year Meeting Voting & ERP Panels

representatives are from educational and research organizations.  Government representatives are from  regulatory agencies including domestic, municipal, federal, and international.    1. Broad perspectives include a view of the registrants in terms of academia, government, industry  and nongovernmental organizations.    2. Specific perspectives include further categorization of registrants by categories of industry,  categories of government, and if necessary by types of academia.  3. Regional perspectives include categorization of registrants by regions of the world and/or  regions of a particular region.  As needed, registrants will be further categorized as or if needed to clarify perspectives.  

Figure 1‐Broad Perspectives of Organizational Registrants 

A. Broad Perspectives (Figure 1)  Nearly 80% of the organizational  registrants are from the broad  group of industry.  Sixteen (16)  percent of the registrants are from  government agencies.  A smaller  amount of the registrants is from  academic organizations three  percent.  Three percent of  registrants  are  from 

nongovernmental  organizations  can be associated with either  academia,  government,  or  industry, but are not.  To develop a  list of representative voting members to demonstrate consensus for SPDS, the industry perspective is  large enough to require further categorization.   

B.

Specific Perspectives 

(Figure 2)  Registrants are categorized into  specific perspectives.  About  one‐fifth of the organizational  registrants  are  contract  research organizations (CROs).   The same percent is also  represented by technology  providers.  Dietary supplement  companies represent 18% of  registrants.  Both regulatory  agencies and food companies  represent eleven and eight  percent respectively.  Whereas  research organizations and  reference  standards  organizations make up five 

Figure 2 ‐ Specific Perspectives of Organizational Registrants