AOAC SPADA Meeting

10/15/2018

Advisory Panel, Stakeholder Panel & Working Groups

Advisory  Panel

• US DUSA-TE, JPEO JPM Guardian, DBPAO

• Community of experts and key stakeholders • Balanced representative subset of vetted voting stakeholders • Anyone with a material interest can participate

Stakeholder Panel

• Consists of technical experts from Industry, Government, CRO’s, and Academia to develop method performance criteria required for needed methods • Present background and history on analytical method needs for stakeholder panel • Members approved by SPADA Chair • Begin drafting standards

Working  Groups

Stakeholder Panel Role and Output

• Defines specific analytical issue(s)

1 st

• Forms working groups to draft standard(s)  that address the issue(s)

2 nd

• Comments on draft standard(s)

3 rd

• Adopts voluntary consensus standard(s)

4 th

AOAC Voluntary Consensus Standards  – Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Manuscript published in  Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

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