Heavy Metals Meeting Book_MYM2023

8 Stages of AOAC Standards Development

Initiate and launch the working group meeting virtually to develop and agree on draft standard. Stage 3: Working Group (WG) Draft Standard

Reach agreement on scope of work for the type of standard to be developed. Stage 1: Project Initiation: Work Scope

Comments on the draft standard are reconciled and the working group revises and agrees on a revised draft standard. The document is now ready for presentation to broader stakeholders for their consensus. Stage 5: Working Group Draft Revision

Stage 7: Audit Review

Consensus draft standard undergoes an audit by the AOAC Official Methods Board (OMB). Once all parameters are satisfactorily met, the consensus draft standard is approved by the OMB and is now an AOAC consensus standard.

The working group presents the draft revised standard to the stakeholder assembly for their deliberation and consensus. Stakeholders reach consensus on the acceptability of the final draft thereby recommending the consensus draft standard for approval.

AOAC invites subject matter experts. Publicize standards activity & open call for working group members. Assign Scientific Advisor (if needed) and working group chair(s). Vet applicants and establish working group.

AOAC standards are published online on the AOAC website & in the Official Methods of Analysis SM of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. Summaries of deliberations and stage changes are published in the Inside Laboratory Management magazine. Stage 8: Publication of Standard and Outcomes

Once working group has reached consensus on the standard, it will be posted for public comments with input from a broader group of stakeholders.

Stage 4: Public Comments

Stage 2: Outreach

Stage 6: Stakeholder Consensus

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midyear Meeting March 13 –17, 2023 | Gaithersburg, MD