AIMS Meeting Book_MYM2023

AOAC Can Help Industries Current Problem Culture  Culture is accepted, difficult to run, slow, and the known standard  Culture deficiencies not well known  Colony Forming Units (CFU’s) well established  CFU’s used to qualify testing labs qPCR  Modern qPCR capabilities not well known  Analysis is on genomic units (GU’s)  Lacking certification standards  Lacking Alert and Action guidelines based upon GU’s

 Culture has testing certification standards  Alert and Action somewhat established based upon CFU’s

Quickly create a certification for qPCR testing (months not years) Water treater needs a fast method as good or better than the ISO 11731 culture method Water treaters desire options on test methods, and one that is AOAC certified