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INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE

METHODS (ISPAM)

Scott Coates, Ph.D.

AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Scott Coates is a 21-year AOAC veteran now serving as the AOAC Chief

Scientific Officer. Dr. Coates joined AOAC in 1992 as a manager for the

AOAC Research Institute, and ran the

Performance Method Tested

program until 2009 when he was promoted to become AOAC's Chief

Scientific Officer (CSO). As CSO, Coates is involved in every major AOAC

project, ranging from biological threat agent detection,

food/environmental microbiology, and nutritional chemistry of infant formula. Coates was the

lead author of the

Guideline for Standard Methods Performance Requirements

in the 19th edition

of the

Official Methods of Analysis.

Coates is a University of Maryland alumni has a B.S. in

microbiology and a M.S. in Biotechnology Management.