AOAC Standards Development
•
AOAC develops voluntary consensus standards
using the following principles:
Transparency
Openness
Balance
Due Process
Consensus
Appeals
Stakeholder Panel Activity
March 22,
2016
• Define specific analytical issues
• WG chairs for
Brucella
,
Burkholderia
,
Variola
, and
Botulinum
Neurotoxin A provided
background & proposed fit for purpose statements
March 23,
2016
• Form working groups to begin draft standard method performance requirements
• Working groups met on second day of SPADA meeting in March to begin their work
and continued via teleconference
July 13‐August
12, 2016
• Comment on draft standard method performance requirements
• Comment period for all four SMPRs began on July 13, 2016 through Friday, August
12, 2016.
August 30,
2016
• Deliberate and reach consensus on a final versions of the standard method
performance requirements
• WG chairs will present draft SMPRs for stakeholder deliberation and consensus.
AOAC Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs)
– Published in
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
– Manuscript published in
Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL