SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

SPADA Meeting Afternoon Agenda

Related NIST Initiatives (1:00 – 2:00 p.m.) Nancy Lin, NIST Surrogate Materials for Challenging On‐site Biological Assessment Processes Mixed Microbiological Reference Materials

Bacterial Pathogen Screening of Suspicious Visible Powders (2:00 – 2:30 p.m.) Jennifer Arce, PNNL

Considerations for Implementing Sequencing for BioWatch Laboratory  Operations (2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.) Vikram Munikoti, US Department of Homeland Security

Potential Future SPADA Activities (3:00 – 3:30 p.m.) Linda Beck, NSWC – Dahlgren, SPADA Co‐Chair

Adjourn

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Meeting Goal

• Approval of the Environmental Organism Panel,  which will be published as a standard in the peer‐ reviewed  Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL and  the Official Methods of Analysis Compendium – All relevant existing SPADA Standard Method  Performance Requirements will be updated to  incorporate the revised Environmental Organism.

• Discussion of Future Projects

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