AOAC STANDARDS & METHODS ORIENTATION E-BOOK

9/10/2019

Terminology (con’t)

Term

Definition

Advisory Panel

Planning or ad hoc committee of key stakeholders to identify additional  stakeholders and experts, identify priorities and help to plan the first stakeholder  meeting.

Key Stakeholder

A stakeholder who may have a great material interest 

Consensus

General agreement, but not necessarily unanimity, and includes a process for  attempting to resolve objections by interested parties, as long as all comments have  been fairly considered, each objector is advised of the disposition of his or her  objection(s) and the reasons why, and the consensus body members are given an  opportunity to change their votes after reviewing the comments

Fitness for Purpose

Description of what the method needs to do

Standard Method  Performance Requirements

Voluntary consensus standard that details the fitness for purpose; including relevant  analyte(s), non‐relevant analytes, matrices, potential interferents, and performance  characteristics including analytical range, levels of confidence; recoveries, etc….   A vetted balanced representative subset of the stakeholder panel who vote on  motions presented to the stakeholder panel on behalf of the stakeholder panel  demonstrating consensus of the stakeholders

Voting Members

Basic Principles of Standards Development

As an international standard developing organization, AOAC standard  setting activities include:

Transparency Openness Balance of Interests Due Process Consensus Appeals

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