AOAC SPIFAN Vanillin Working Group (December 13, 2022)

DOCUMENT STAGES OF THE AOAC STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

STAGE 1: Project Initiation: Agreement and alignment on goals and scope of work for the type of standard to be developed and key experts, leading authorities, and stakeholder organizations that should be involved. Outreach and engagement about upcoming standards development activities. This stage includes assessing interested stakeholders and working group members for balance of interests. An OMB liaison is also assigned at this stage. This stage encompasses Detailed Steps 1 and 2. STAGE 2: Working Group Draft Standard: Working group onboarding, launching, and developing draft standard that can be posted for public comment and additional stakeholder input via working group consensus. Working groups meet as often as needed to achieve consensus with allowance for working group members to express objections and appeals and have those views considered before the WGDS is ready for posting for public comment. This stage includes the public comment period. This stage encompasses Detailed Steps 3 and 4. STAGE 3: Reconcile comments and Revision of Working Group Draft Standard: Working group review and reconciliation of written and oral comments received. The WGDS is revised as needed based on the reconciliation of the comments and input. The working group shall review draft with allowances for working group members to express objections and appeals and have those views considered before reaching consensus on the document. Working group consensus makes the revised draft a Working group Draft Standard – Revision 1. This stage includes preparing the WGDS ‐ R1 for presentation to a stakeholder assembly for consensus. This stage encompasses Detailed Step 5. STAGE 4: Stakeholder Assembly Consensus Draft Standard (SACDS): WGDS ‐ R1 is presented to the stakeholders with public comments reconciliation. Stakeholders deliberate on acceptability of the draft standard and may include any tweaks/clarifications that might be needed to the draft standard. Stakeholders may reach consensus to accept a final version of the document, an SACDS, or make recommendations to revise the draft. This stage encompasses Detailed Step 6. STAGE 5: Due Process Audit Review: OMB to review the outcomes of the stakeholder assembly consensus. If the draft standard is a consensus draft standard, then the OMB needs to evaluate the process for how the standard was developed and ensure that due process elements were met. OMB will reach consensus on the draft once all questions have been satisfactorily addressed. If approved, the standard is an approved AOAC standard. If the draft standard did not receive consensus by stakeholders, then OMB reviews the recommendations of stakeholders along with the audit. Staff will reconcile any gaps. This stage encompasses Detailed Step 7. STAGE 6: Publication of Standard and Outcomes: Outcomes of all deliberations along with status changes of standards are published in the AOAC Inside Laboratory Management (ILM). Any approved AOAC standards are published in the Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL in both online and subsequent print editions. Press releases may be sent to announce the approval and/or publication of an approved AOAC standard. This stage encompasses Detailed Step 8.

WG Draft Standard (WGDS)

WG Draft Standard – Revision 1 (WGDS ‐ R1)

Title revision, terminology addition, and streamlined proposed policy statement – v3 (November 2019)

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