AOAC ISPAM Meeting eBook, March 17 2015

AOAC Acronyms and Abbreviations

AMDL

acceptable minimum detection level

AOAC INTERNATIONAL (AOAC formerly stood for Association of Official Analytical Chemists , but long-name no longer used)

AOAC

CSO

chief scientific officer

ERP

expert review panel

ISPAM

International Stakeholder Panel on Alternative Methods

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

LOD

limit of detection

LPOD

laboratory probability of detection

NGO

non-governmental organization

Official Methods of Analysis , frequently pronounced like “o maa”

OMA

OMB

Official Methods Board

POD

probability of detection

Performance Tested Methods

PTM

RI

AOAC Research Institute

RSDR

Relative Standard Deviation of Reproducibililty, sometimes referred to as “RSD big R”. The variation between laboratories. Relative Standard Deviation of Repeatability, sometimes referred to as “RSD little R”. The within laboratory variation, also called precision.

RSDr

Standard Method Performance Requirement , frequently pronounced as in “smipper”.

SMPR