AOAC CASP Meeting Minutes, March 2020

Holly

Johnson Johnson Joseph

AHPA 6

Kathy

Stenerson

MilliporeSigma

Ron

bioMérieux

Benjamin

Strong Sullivan Szpylka Thomas Travis Tucker Watson Wilson Wong Zhang Waye Tang

Neogen Corporation

George James

AsureQuality New Zealand

Darryl

Eurofins

Jursich

Centera Bioscience

John Yijin

Consultant

Julie

Kowalski

Consultant

Applied Food Science Scientific Solutions

Mary Kay Krogull

Eurofins Scientific Inc.

Robert

Markus

Lacorn Lasater

R-Biopharm AG

John Larry

NSF International MetrohmUSA Caliper Foods Health Canada

Matt

Relief x laboratories

Neogen

Daniel

Quynh-Nhi Le

William Michael

Lipps

Shimadzu

Andrew

Loewenstein

Q Laboratories

Walter Brent

NIST

Seth Hao

TEQ Analytical Labs Canalyte Laboratories

AOAC Staff and Technical Consultants:

Patrick Bird (Technical Consultant), Scott Coates, Christopher Dent, Alicia Meiklejohn, Nora Marshall, David Schmidt

Meeting Minutes:

I.

Welcome and Introductions

Schmidt thanked all for attending the third meeting of AOAC’s Cannabis Analytical Science Program and invited all to sign into the meeting to access the meeting materials.

II.

Program Review – Scott Coates, AOAC

Coates begin by thanking the AOAC CASP members who make the program possible. He reviewed the current CASP structure, including all working groups and projects. He explained that the three active working groups, Cannabinoids, Chemical Contaminants, and Microbial Contaminants, have all been working on new SMPRs since the last CASP Meeting in Denver. The Cannabinoids in Consumables working group had an initial focus on cannabinoids in hemp plant materials, and that SMPR has been published. The chemical contaminants working group has developed and published an SMPR for residual solvents in cannabis and issued a call for methods. They have now developed a draft SMPR for heavy metals in cannabis. The Microbial Contaminants Working Group has developed an SMPR for detection of Aspergillus in cannabis and has now developed a draft SMPR for detection of Salmonella in cannabis. Coates further advised that the CASP training and education working group will launch soon, with Toby Astill of PerkinElmer set to chair that group. A proficiency testing working group will also start this spring.

III.

Consensus Building at AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Chris Dent, AOAC

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