OMB Meeting Book-October 1, 2015

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MEMORANDUM

28 Sept 2015

Date:

To:

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Board of Directors

From:

Shauna Roman – Chair, Official Methods Board

Subject:

AOAC Official Methods Board Update

OMB Membership The first term of four (4) OMB members come to a close this year. Two OMB members, Shang-Jing (Jean) Pan (Abbott Nutrition) and Perry Martos (University of Guelph) opted not to pursue a second term as a member of the OMB. I would like to thank both Jean and Perry for their hard work and dedication to the OMB. They will both be missed. The OMB has approved the members of the 2015-2016 OMB members. Two members, Erin Crowley (Q Laboratories) and Brad Stawick (Microbac) will begin their second terms on the OMB. The OMB selection committee did an excellent job bringing forward a very highly qualified slate of 13 candidates for two OMB member positions. I am proud to announce that Don Gilliliand (Abbott Nutrition) and Katerina (Kate) Mastovska (Covance) have been appointed to the OMB. Additionally, Erin Crowley and Brad Stawick have been reappointed to the OMB. Their terms will begin following the AOAC Business Meeting on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Awards Over the past year, members of the AOAC Analytical Laboratory Accreditation Criteria Committee (ALACC) worked to update the AOAC Internationals Guidelines for Laboratories Performing Microbiological and Chemical Analysis of Food and Pharmaceuticals. The update was in response to numerous requests for clarifications from laboratories, accrediting bodies, and assessors. The revised document (Draft 6) was presented to and approved by the OMB. AOAC received a request for the OMB to consider ALACC work for the OMB Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific excellence. This request was received after the 2015 OMB award recipients had been decided and thus needed to be approved outside of the normal process. The OMB agreed that it made sense to consider ALACC for this work and did approve ALACC for the 2015 OMB Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific Excellence.

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