AOAC SPADA Meeting

Defense Biological Product Assurance Office Presented to SPADA on October 17, 2018 SPADA- Strain Verification Standards for Assay Development

Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Technical Coordinator, DBPAO Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense This work was funded by DUSA-TE and JPEO JPM Guardian, DBPAO

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Why do we need a Standard for strain verification and authentication; i.e., characterization?-

There is no such consensus standard agreed upon by the community

2018_10_17_SPADA_Brief

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