OMB Winter Mtg.-February 5-6, 2015

DATE:   Thursday,  January 8, 2015    TIME:    1:00pm – 2:00pm ET 26

OFFICIAL METHODS BOARD  January 8, 2015 TELECONFERENCE 

D RAFT T ELECONFERENCE M INUTES

OMB MEMBERS  (present during all or part of the meeting)  Shauna Roman  Reckitt Benckiser 

Chair 

Erin Crowley   Doug Abbott  Sneh Bhandari 

Q Laboratories 

Member  Member  Member  Member  Member  Member  Member  Member  Member  Member 

Independent/USDA Retired  Mérieux NutriSciences 

Joe Boison 

CFIA 

Jo Marie Cook  (by proxy) 

Florida Department of Agriculture 

Perry Martos 

University of Guelph  Abbott Nutrition 

Shang‐Jing (Jean) Pan 

Tom Phillips  Victoria Siegel  Brad Stawick   John Szpylka 

Maryland Department of Agriculture 

Eurofins  Microbac 

Past Chair ( ex officio  member) 

Mérieux NutriSciences 

OMB MEMBERS (absent with regrets) Qian Graves 

US FDA CFSAN 

Member  Member 

Yvonne Salfinger 

Independent Consultant 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS & INVITED GUESTS  Erik Konings  Nestle 

President 

Norma Hill 

US Treasury (retired)  Covance Laboratories 

President ‐ Elect 

Darryl Sullivan  Jon DeVries  Paul Wehling 

Secretary  Treasurer 

Medallion Labs/General Mills  Medallion Labs/General Mills 

Committee on Statistics 

AOAC STAFF (present during all or part of the meeting) Delia Boyd 

Jim Bradford  Scott Coates 

Deborah McKenzie  Alicia Meiklejohn 

I. INTRODUCTORY ITEMS/REVIEW OF POLICY DOCUMENTS (Roman) a. Call to Order/Introductions/Announcements  i. Roman called the meeting to order at 1:06pm. 

b. Approval of Draft Agenda *

i. MOTION:   For OMB to approve the agenda.      Bhandari moved and Phillips seconded.  Consensus: unanimously in favor. 

II.

WORK ITEMS FROM AOAC BOARD OF DIRECTORS  a.

Hill and other members of the AOAC Board of Directors explained the rationale for requesting