AOAC CASP Meeting - MYM 2020

Approving the Draft Standards

Program Lead and Standards Manager will oversee the approval process

STEP 2 : Program Lead will conclude deliberation and Standards Manager will record and verify with WG chair(s) any revisions, if needed

STEP 1: WG chair(s) introduced to present the draft standard along with how comments were reconciled followed by discussion on the draft standard

STEP 3 : After final revisions are complete, the WG chair will make a motion for stakeholder acceptance of the standard and recommend approval. A second to the motion may be entertained, but is not necessary STEP 6: Standards Manager will walk attendees through the general consensus process. All attendees will be able to participate in the demonstration of consensus

STEP 4: Program lead will acknowledge the motion (and second, if offered) and offer time for discussion/questions on the motion.

STEP 5: After any due discussion, Program Lead will call for a vote on the motion.

NOTE: 2/3 vote in favor of a motion will pass a motion. 2/3 of those voting will demonstrate consensus in passing a motion Negative votes need to be recorded

If the motion is approved, a consensus standard is formed.

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Documentation and Communication

AOAC carefully documents the actions of CASP and the Working groups

AOAC will prepare summaries of the meetings Communicate summaries to the stakeholders Publish status and summaries in the Referee section of AOAC’s Inside Laboratory Management Publish documents in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

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