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AOAC INTERNATIONAL
As an international standards development organization, AOAC must maintain the following principles throughout all its standard setting ti iti ac v es:
• Transparency • Openness • Balance of Interests • Due Process • Consensus • Appeals
Stakeholder Panel Role and Output
• Defines specific analytical issue(s)
1 st
• Forms working groups to draft standard(s) that address the issue(s)
2 nd
• Comments on draft standard(s)
3 rd
• Adopts voluntary consensus standard(s)
4 th
AOAC Voluntary Consensus Standards • Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs) – Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Manuscript published in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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