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History of SMPRs • Before SMPRs OMA methods were validated without formal acceptance criteria. • Compared to a reference method. • Certain reference documents existed (but hard to find) for describing PRSD (R) , expected recovery, & HorRat value. • In 2004, AOAC was awarded a US Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) project to evaluate hand-held assays. • AOAC developed a common study protocol, and for the first time, developed and published a separate acceptance criteria statement. • AOAC began developing what are now called standard method performance requirements in 2007. • On April 8, 2008, PCR Methods for Detection of Bacillus anthracis in Aerosol Collection Filters and/or Liquids, was approved by the Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays (SPADA). This would become AOAC’s first SMPR. • In 2009, AOAC replaced the terms “acceptance criteria” with “Standard Method Performance Requirements” (SMPR).

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