AOAC SPIFAN Vanillin Working Group (December 13, 2022)

BASIC AOAC STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY FRAMEWORK

Advisory Panel Meeting

Community Consensus

WG Meetings

Works with AOAC to define scope of work to be launched, including development of new programs and/or new working groups (WGs)

WG begin work and draft consensus documents via web conference and reach general consensus on draft standard between AOAC meetings

WG chair(s) present final draft standard along with reconciled comments for deliberation and consensus.

Approval of Standard follows consideration of all input and with oversight by Official Methods Board (OMB). Publication of Standard is in the OMA Approval/Publication of Standard

Draft standard is posted for public comments. Comment period is ≥ 30 days Virtual public comment session via webconference Draft Standard Public Comment Period

At AOAC meetings, launch WG effort by refining a preset scope of work into a basic applicability statement from which the WG to began drafting the standard (e.g., SMPR, guidelines, etc) Launching New WG Activities

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