SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

AOAC Standards Development • AOAC develops voluntary consensus standards  using the following principles:

Transparency Openness Balance Due Process Consensus Appeals 

Stakeholder Panel Activity

• Define specific analytical issues • WG chairs for Brucella , Burkholderia , Variola , and Botulinum Neurotoxin A provided  background & proposed fit for purpose statements  • Form working groups to begin draft standard method performance requirements • Working groups met on second day of SPADA meeting in March to begin their work  and continued via teleconference • Comment on draft standard method performance requirements • Comment period for all four SMPRs began on July 13, 2016 through Friday, August  12, 2016.  • Deliberate and reach consensus on a final versions of the standard method  performance requirements • WG chairs will present draft SMPRs for stakeholder deliberation and consensus. AOAC Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs) – Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Manuscript published in  Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

March 22,  2016

March 23,  2016

July 13‐August  12, 2016

August 30,  2016