August 30, 2016 SPADA Meeting Book

Approving AOAC Standards • Working Group Chair or designee will present on the draft standard  method performance requirements including reconciled comments  received on behalf of the working group and moves for SPADA to adopt  the SMPR® as presented

• SPADA chair will entertain deliberation on the draft standard 

• After due deliberation, SPADA chair will call for a vote

• Voting stakeholders will be able to vote in favor of the motion, against the  motion, abstain from voting

• 2/3 vote in favor required to approve/adopt an AOAC SMPR

Documentation and Communication • AOAC carefully documents the actions of the Stakeholder Panel and the  Working groups • AOAC will prepare summaries of the meetings – Communicate summaries to the stakeholders – Publish summaries in the Referee section of AOAC’s  Inside Laboratory  Management

• AOAC publishes its voluntary consensus standard – Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL –

• AOAC publishes the status of standards in the Referee section of  AOAC’s  Inside Laboratory Management