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Dear Colleagues,
The next Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays (SPADA) is being held on February 3 & 4, 2015 in the Lobby
Conference room of AOAC new offices in Rockville, MD.
Conference Center
2275 Research Blvd
Rockville, MD 20850
The attached Agenda for this SPADA meeting will be specific to the development of Standard Analytical Method
Performance Requirements (SMPR) for three biological threat agents and associated detection techniques: 1) Detection
of
Coxiella burnetti
by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); 2) Detection of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus by PCR,
with the possibility of developing a single SMPR for a combination of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus + Western
Equine Encephalitis virus + Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus; and 3) Detection of Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB) by
protein assay.
On day two, three Working Groups will also meet, one for each agent.
To give you some background, DUSA‐TE is working to support and improve the test and evaluation standards for DoD,
CBRN defense systems. To accomplish their goals, DUSA‐TE has asked The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory and AOAC INTERNATIONAL to develop SMPRs for the three biological threat agents.
As in the past, AOAC will perform its standards development work through SPADA and working groups to ensure buy‐in
and acceptability of the SMPRs in an open and transparent consensus‐based process. Matt Davenport, JHU/APL, will
Chair this effort.
Limited space is available for this meeting. To avoid disappointment, please make sure to
register now.
If you have any
questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us by reply email or at
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SPADA_AGENDA_
FEB2014v3.docx
Wishing you Happy Holidays to you and yours and looking forward to your participation in the SPADA project in
February.
Kind regards,
Krystyna
Krystyna McIver
Project Lead
AOAC INTERNTIONAL
2275 Research Blvd., Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20850
301‐924‐7077; EXT 111
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mailto:kmciver@aoac.org
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