AOAC OMB Meeting Book 2-10-16

AOAC OMB Meeting

MEMORANDUM 

February 10, 2016 

Date:  

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Official Methods Board 

To: 

Deborah McKenzie, Staff Liaison – AOAC Official Methods Board 

From:  

Subject: 

Item II.d. Sole Source Modification of Official Methods of Analysis

The AOAC OMB Sole Source Modification Working Group has met several times during 2015 and in  January to discuss a process that is credible, defensible, includes stakeholder input while protecting  the Association.  The working group has examines a couple of options and is nearing a prospective  solution.  President Hill mentioned on the last working group teleconference that a major concern of  members of the AOAC Board of Directors are those method modifications that result in achieving  different results from the original Official Method, such that any procedure should address this  issue.    

RECOMMENDATIONS :  To approve and recommend a procedure for handling sole source method  modifications submitted to the AOAC Research Institute. 

ENCLOSURES :   Basic Flowchart – Roman 

Blended Flowchart ‐ McKenzie 

February 10-11, 2016

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