AOAC SPADA Meeting

October 2018 Meeting Goals

SPADA will launch new working groups on:

 Bacterial Strain Verification  Co-Chairs Linda C. Beck, JRAD and Shanmuga Sozhamannan, ECBC  In-Silico Analysis  Co-Chairs Linda C. Beck, JRAD and Shanmuga Sozhamannan, ECBC  Soil Analysis  Co-Chairs Linda C. Beck, JRAD and Morgan Minyard, DTRA

This work is funded by  DUSA‐TE and JPEO JPM Guardian, DBPAO

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Bacterial Strain Verification

Bacteria Strain Verification Working Group It is not an uncommon occurrence for an assay  developer, researcher, or evaluator to discover that a  bacterial culture is not what it is purported to be in  terms of species or strain. There is no consensus on  the process to authenticate bacterial strain. This group  will work to develop guidelines for the characterization  and authentication of bacterial strains to provide  confidence in the identification of material being used.

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