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OVERVIEW: Project Initiation to Adopted Method

• Urgent or Emerging Analytically-based Issues • AOAC forms an Advisory Panel of sponsors and key stakeholders

Initiation of Projects

• AOAC forms and engages working groups to draft standards • Stakeholder approves voluntary consensus standards – most common are standard method performance requirements.

Standards Development

• AOAC forms Expert Review Panel (ERP) to review & approve methods using approved standard • Adopted methods are published in the Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL & Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Conformity Assessment

AOAC Standards & Methods – Main Features

Managed by AOAC Staff

6 months for standards development 6 month for methods review/adoption Stakeholder panels & ERPs meetings

> 100 Official Methods adopted by ERPs using standards (> 50 methods adopted for infant formula and adult nutritionals)

Domestic and International Principles for Standards Development

Global & domestic volunteer driven, participation, and cooperation

113 analytical standard method performance requirements

About AOAC Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPR®)

Community agreement on the minimum performance requirements for a class of methods. Provide a logical way to define and detailed description of the analytical acceptance requirements

Published as a standard

Serve as a benchmark for method developers