2019 AOAC Furans WG Book

Advisory Panel

• Met on February 8, 2019 and follow up email  communication Analytes of Interest: Furan  Commodities of Interest: Coffee Baby Food (including infant  formula) Cereals

2‐methylfuran 3‐methylfuran 2,5 dimethylfuran 2‐pentylfuran

Fruit Juices (From Concentrate &  Not from Concentrate) Orange &  Apple 

OVERVIEW: Project Initiation to Adopted Method 

• Urgent or Emerging Analytically‐based Issues  • AOAC forms an Advisory Panel of sponsors and key stakeholders

Initiation of  Projects

• AOAC forms and engages working groups to draft standards • Stakeholder approves voluntary consensus standards – most  common are standard method performance requirements.

Standards  Development

• AOAC forms Expert Review Panel (ERP) to review & approve  methods using approved standard • Adopted methods are published in the Official Methods of  Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL &  Journal of AOAC  INTERNATIONAL

Conformity  Assessment