2016 Technical Service Award-Nominees

c. Has the nominee communicated related activities through the appropriate channels, either through the stakeholder panel/working groups/expert review panels/community chairs, the Committee on Statistics or Safety or through the Chief Scientific Officer or other staff designees? d. Has the nominee contributed significantly to AOAC INTERNATIONAL over a period of years with other accomplishments related to his/her area of expertise (e.g symposium presentations, poster presentations, publications, workshops, meetings)? INTERNATIONAL standards, guidelines, OMA methods, statistics or safety programs? f. Has the nominee helped to guide AOAC in the decision- making process to make the organization a leader in voluntary consensus standards development and analytical science? Written recommendations and supporting information must be submitted. Please provide a recommendation in support of your nomination. Also, if you answered "YES" to any of the above, please provide details in support of your nomination and recommendation. e. Has the nominee contributed to the development and improvement of AOAC

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Robert was instrumental in the success of the MLV studies that have been performed under SPIFAN. Seven of these methods have been approved by Codex as Type II - Dispute resolution methods - and there are 15 more in progress.

Without Robert's leadership - these project would never have been completed.