OMB Monthly Meeting (April 14, 2016)

OMB Teleconference Materials

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AOAC OFFICIAL METHODS BOARD MAINTENANCE a. Documentation

McKenzie informed OMB that it should begin reviewing some of its documentation to ensure that information is current and to make any necessary revisions.  OMB formed working groups to address this task. i. OMB Terms of Reference: ToR Working Group to review and propose any edits to the OMB Terms of Reference.  Working group members include: Roman, Crowley, and staff. ii. OMB New Member Selection Working Group will review its documentation as well as the Selection of an OMB Vice Chair document.  Working group members are Szpylka, Cook, Crowley and staff/ Vetting of Stakeholder Panels and Expert Review Panels also formed a working group that includes Roman, Gilliland, and staff. ACTION ITEMS: McKenzie to draft documents and forward to working group members. Graves and Salfinger will work with OMB and their respective committees on updates to the TORs for the Committee on Statistics and Committee on Safety. ACTION ITEMS:   Staff to send the current ToRs to the committee chairs.  Awards Update McKenzie provided an update on Awards and set a goal for OMB to have 2016 award recipients decidedin time to announce in the OMB Update to the AOAC Board of Directors for their June meeting. OMB New Member Section Working Group Update Crowley provided an update on the OMB New Member Selection Working Group activities. OMB – Next Teleconference ACTION ITEMS: Staff to reschedule the Thursday, March 10, 2016 OMB teleconference to Monday, February 29, 2016.  OMB to start thinking about potential dates for 2016 spring/summer meeting .

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ADJOURNMENT a.

Motion:   To adjourn the meeting. Crowley moved and Gilliland seconded.  Consensus was unanimously in favor, and meeting adjourned.

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