SPDS 09052014

AOAC and Dietary Supplements

• Guidelines for Dietary Supplements and Botanicals • Guidelines for Single‐Laboratory Validation of Chemical Methods for  Dietary Supplements and Botanicals  • Guidelines for Validation of Botanical Identification Methods • Probability of Identification: A Statistical Model for the Validation of  Qualitative Botanical Identification Methods • A section within the  Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL with over 250  papers • A new chapter in AOAC Official Methods of Analysis • 16 Official Methods of Analysis • Training courses for single laboratory and multi‐laboratory validation  • Community of dietary supplement experts • Concept of fitness for purpose • Concept of expert review panels • Standard method performance requirement for St. John’s wort 

Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements (SPDS)

• Inaugural SPDS Meeting, chaired by Darryl Sullivan, held  March 2014

– Lauched first 3 ingredients:

• Chondroitin, Jana Hildreth ‐ Chair • Anthocyanins, Dana Kruegar ‐ Chair • PDE5 Inhibitors, Kate Mastovska – Chair

– Working groups to develop SMPRs for recommendation for approval  AOAC AM 2014 at  .

– All working groups are open for volunteers.