CASP AOAC 2022 Annual Meeting

has over 20 years’ experience working with natural products & botanicals and spent many happy years conducting research on medicinal plants and giving courses at the University of Hawaii.

Shane Flynn, Senior Director, AOAC Laboratory Proficiency Testing Program

Shane Flynn is the Senior Director of the AOAC Laboratory Proficiency Testing (PT) Program. Shane helped start the first accredited Proficiency Testing program for food labs in the United States and has been developing new programs to address the needs of the analytical community since. He is currently working on Cannabis and Hemp PT programs. Shane accepted the position of Senior Director of Laboratory Proficiency Testing at AOAC in October of 2021. However, he has been with AOAC and specifically the proficiency testing department for 24 years where he was also a Director, Program Manager, and Program Coordinator. Through the years he has helped develop over 15 accredited proficiency

testing programs for Food Chemistry, Food Microbiology, Pesticides, Infant Formula, Swabs and is now working in Cannabis/Hemp. In addition to his Proficiency Testing role, he also is the staff lead for ALACC and the Technical Division of Laboratory Management (TDLM). ALACC is a multinational group of experts from varied scientific disciplines and industries that aids in the development and revisions of The AOAC INTERNATIONAL Guidelines for Laboratories Performing Microbiological and Chemical Analyses of Food, Dietary Supplements, and Pharmaceuticals, An Aid to Interpretation of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 was created by the Analytical Laboratory Accreditation Criteria Committee (ALACC) to provide a section-by-section interpretation of requirements. Shane Attended University of Maryland (College Park) for his B.S in Food Science and University of Maryland, University College (Now Global College) towards M.S. Biotechnology.

Dannielle Lenoir, Signature Science

Danielle Lenoir is a Quality Assurance Chemist and Project Manager for the Hemp and Cannabis proficiency testing program at Signature Science. Her focus is on developing and tailoring tools to help laboratories establish and maintain regulatory compliance, as well as developing solutions for complicated GC obstacles. She has 10 years of experience in laboratory quality assurance, gas chromatography, and method development. Prior to Signature Science, she worked on- and offshore in organic geochemical exploration for oil and gas companies.