AOAC SPADA Meeting

Background

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Soil Testing Working Group launched in order to attempt to address concerns using soil in assay development. Working group an interagency effort in order to include experiences from verity of scientists and to address as many concerns about soil as a matrix during Biothreat testing as possible.

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Soil Testing Working Group Members

Linda Beck, JRAD – DUSA TE; JPEO JPM Guardian DBPAO (Co ‐ Chair) Morgan Minyard, DTRA (Co ‐ Chair) Brian Bennett, Dugway Proving Ground Sherry Blight, Battelle Chris Bradburne, JHU/APL Ryan Cahall, Censeo Insight/DUSA T&E

Don Cronce, DTRA Jason Gans, LANL Paul Jackson, LLNL (Ret.)

Scott Jackson, NIST Kevin Kearns, JPEO Jeff Koehler, USAMRIID Nancy Lin, NIST Richard Ozanich, PNNL Frank Schaefer, EPA (Ret.) Sanjiv Shah, EPA Shanmuga Sozhamannan, JPEO, JPMG, DBPAO Randy Vines, ATCC

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