Page 163 - 2013 ISPAM Mid-Year Mtg Book

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 Voluntary consensus standards
What’s new at AOAC since the last section
meeting?
 Standards Development structure
◦ Advisory Panels
◦ Stakeholder Panels
◦ Working Groups
◦ Expert Review Panels
 A New Pathway to First Action Official Methods of AnalysisSM
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 Facilitated stakeholder engagement
 Addresses community specific issues
 Process consists of transparency, openness, balance,
consensus, due process and appeals.
 Voluntary consensus standards developed in the following
industries:
◦ Commercial & Proprietary methods
◦ Infant formula
F d i d ◦ oo n ustry
◦ Homeland security & threat agents
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