OMB Meeting Book (June 22, 2017)

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MEMORANDUM 

Date: 

June 22‐23, 2017 

To: 

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Official Methods Board 

From: 

Deborah McKenzie, Staff Liaison – AOAC Official Methods Board 

Subject: 

Item VIIc – Review and Approval of Stakeholder Panel Representative  Voting Members 

During the AOAC Mid‐Year meeting, there were some stakeholder panels for which registered  organizations did not attend or for which organizations that did not register did attend.  This did  create a temporary offset in the balance of stakeholders represented in a couple of instances.  In the  immediate term, other representative organizations were invited to sit as voting members and  balance was restored.  Within OMB, there currently is not an easy way to rectify this in the moment.    For Expert Review Panels, the OMB chair can authorize a new member to sit on ERP in the urgency  of not having enough members for a quorum.  This is substantiated at the next OMB teleconference  or meeting during which the modification to the ERP is disclosed and discussed.   Recommendation:  For the OMB consider a similar type of process for the stakeholder panels.  The caveat is what  happens when the OMB chair is not accessible.