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MEMORANDUM
Date:
28 Sept 2015
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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