TO:
Official Methods Board
Date: December 12, 2014
From: AOAC INTERNATIONAL Board of Directors
Subject: Modification of AOAC Official Methods of Analysis 2009.01 and 2011.25
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The Board of Directors has assessed your request for input on the adoption of the modifications to
OMA 2009.01 and 2011.25. After review, the Board has determined that a more robust pathway is
required before a method modification is adopted.
Clearly, the “modified” methods 2009.01 and 2011.25 do not yield the same results as the original
methods and therefore do not appear to measure the same fractions as “fiber.” Under the new AOAC
processes, these changes do not represent methods that would fulfill the performance requirements
for the originally adopted methods.
It is therefore incumbent on the Official Methods Board to withdraw the approval for the modified
methods pending the adoption of new Standard Method Performance Requirements. Once the
SMPRs are approved by the appropriate Stakeholder Panel, the method author is encouraged to
submit the modified method for review by an Expert Review Panel. The method chosen by this ERP
would then move forward with a new OMA number in an openly vetted process.
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