SPADA Working Groups ~ April Meeting Book

AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays Q-Fever Working Group Teleconference

Meeting Minutes Friday, March 6, 2015; 11:00 a.m. ET

Attendees

Panel Members (Present during all or part of the meeting) : James Samuel, Texas A&M (Chair) Christina Egan, NYSDOH Jeff Ballin, ECBC Linda Beck, Naval Surface Warface Center Ryan Cahall, Censeo Insight Joan Gebhardt, NMRC Ted Hadfield, Hadeco., LLC Katalin Kiss, ATCC John Lednicky, University of Florida Kris Roth, FDA

AOAC Staff (Present during all or part of the meeting) :

Scott Coates Christopher Dent Krystyna McIver

Meeting Minutes

I.

Welcome and Introductions

All were introduced and roll call was taken at 11:00 a.m. ET. Samuel asked AOAC to ensure that Cato and Massung are available for the next conference call.

II.

Review of February Meeting

Coates reviewed the Fitness for Purpose statement for this working group as well as the draft SMPR. Minor editorial changes to the SMPR were made in real time.

III.

SMPR Development

Maximum time to result was discussed – is four hours appropriate? ACTION for AOAC to check earlier SMPRs for the maximum time to result.

With regards to inclusivity panels, Samuel stated that phylogenetic diversity is the basis for the isolates he would choose and he recommended six (6) different isolate groups. Kiss asked if the recent Netherlands strain be covered by the six and Samuel said that it would. Samuel identified the Inclusivity groups as follows:

· Group 1: Nine Mile (RSA493 and RSA439) · Group 2: Henzerling · Group 3: Idaho Goat · Group 4: K