ISPAM Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book 3-14-17

Performance requirements parameters for quantitative methods

• Analytical Range • Limit of Detection • Limit of Quantitation • Repeatability • Recovery • Reproducibility

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Stakeholder Panel Activity Since September 2016 • Working Group on Food Allergen Assays met in November and December to work on draft of quantitative SMPR for egg • Comments were received from working group members and sent out for working group meeting. • Working group co-chairs held an in-person meeting at AOAC on February 3 rd to draft responses to comments • Drafting subgroup of the working group met at AOAC on March 13 th to work on draft of SMPR • Working group will meet following ISPAM per agenda to continue working on the SMPR.

AOAC Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs) – Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Manuscript published in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

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