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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.