ISPAM Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book 3-14-17

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 21

Roles and Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Panel

– Establish working groups to develop standards – Comment, deliberate, and establish voluntary consensus standards

• Stakeholder Panel Working Groups – Develop draft standard method performance requirements – Reconcile comments – Present draft standard to stakeholders

• Official Method Board – Vet and approve stakeholder panel chair and representative voting stakeholders – Assign representative to serve as a resource to stakeholder panel • AOAC Staff – Coordinate stakeholder panel, working groups, and facilitate their meetings – Document actions/decisions of working groups and stakeholder panel – Post SMPRs and collect comments for draft SMPRs 22