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Discussi n / Action Item
Person
Responsible
reviews. All the reviews were well appreciated and well done. Karen’s
review can be used as a template for other reviews.
Dec.-16-14
Action Item:
Delia will email the instructions for uploading studies/sharing files in
Goggle Doc.
Delia will upload the study and send information on where and how to
access it
Delia
Close of business
Dec.-16-14
Action Item:
Delia will check how we can share documents and reviews among the
entire committee. Do we need a policy statement from AOAC on who can
see the study? For example, Conflict of interests would have to be
accommodated. Proprietary information needs to be accommodated.
Redacting company name, sharing only partial data, etc. may be adequate
to deal with this.
Also, copyright may need to be considered.
Delia
Close of business
Dec.-16-14
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John Philips provided files for learning from past experience. Qian had
emailed.
Action Item: Qian will ask Paul to provide his old examples/files
Qian
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Delia informed us that all requests for review MUST come through AOAC.
Delia and Deborah McKenzie are the contact people.
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New statistical member has been approved.Anli Gao (University of Guelph,
Canada)
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Next Meeting: Jan. 20, 2015
Appendix 1
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2015 statistics symposium - The Call for Scientific Sessions deadline is December 9,
2014.
We need to identify 3 speakers:
Paul Wehling
Robert LaBudde (he will provide the file for his talk but he will find
someone to deliver his talk because he will not attend the meeting)
Hilde recommended Dr. WolfhardWegscheider (the Chairman of
Eurachem) he is requesting registration/travel assistance.
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Discussion: The topic must be relevant to the AOAC membership. There is some room
to modify the topic(s) after the Dec. 9
th
, 2014 deadline, assuming the symposium is
accepted.
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Approach - Focus on identifying a general theme of the symposium, then determine what
specific topics will be addressed by each speaker
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Suggestions for a theme included:
“Practical Issues in Measurement Experiments” or, focus on validation
studies in particular. Robert proposed to look at assumptions behind
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