SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

Memo To:

SPADA From: Scott Coates, AOAC International Date: March 27, 2017 Re: Environment Organism Panel (EOP)

Two sets of comments and two versions of the draft Environment Organism Panel (EOP) (version 4 and version 5) are attached. Version 5 of the EOP and the second set of comments contain some somewhat significant changes to the direction of the draft EOP, and so we thought it would be easier to present these changes separately. Summary of proposed changes in version 5: 1) Move the soil interference study from Part 2 to Part 1 as it is more consistent with the aims of Part 1 than Part 2. We haven’t reviewed Part 1 together because we were primarily focused on the organisms (in Part 2). So, version 5 includes Part 1 of the standard. 2) Make the SMPR more generic to assays instead of PCR assays so the EOP applies to all assays as well as PCR assays. 3) A series of editorial changes that support the suggestion to make the EOP more generic such as “ assays” in stead of “PCR assays”; and remove references to “primers”, “probes”, and “DNA”.

Please call me (301 924 7077 ext 137) or email me ( scoates@aoac.org ) if you have questions or concerns.