SPADA Book - April 11, 2017
Scope of Work
• Review the previous list of 86 environmental organisms
• Create a section on soil testing providing guidance on testing for cross‐reactivity
• Modify and include a section on bioinformatics
• Deliverable: • The approved Environmental Organism Panel 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.
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Key Points
• Working group met by teleconferences: November, twice in December, January
• Reviewed the current list of environmental organisms
• 37 species DNA were identified as unnecessary for inclusion based on improvements to technology, more knowledge, and experience
• Remaining organisms divided into two groups:
Group 1: 12 arthropods and mammalian species DNA
Group 2: 37 cultivatable air, soil, and water bacteria
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