SPADA eBook

Documentation and Communication

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AOAC carefully documents the actions of the Stakeholder Panel and the

Working groups

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AOAC will prepare summaries of the meetings

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Communicate summaries to the stakeholders

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Publish summaries in the

Referee

section of AOAC’s

Inside Laboratory

Management

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Publish revisions to the relevant sections of the SMPRs developed under this

contract

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AOAC publishes the status of standards in the

Referee

section of

AOAC’s

Inside Laboratory Management

Roles and Responsibilities

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Stakeholder Panel

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Establish working groups to develop standards

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Comment, deliberate, and establish voluntary consensus standards

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Stakeholder Panel Working Groups

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Develop draft standard method performance requirements

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Reconcile comments

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Present draft standard to stakeholders

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Official Method Board

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Vet and approve stakeholder panel chair and representative voting stakeholders

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Assign representative to serve as a resource to stakeholder panel

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AOAC Staff

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Coordinate stakeholder panel, working groups, and facilitate their meetings

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Document actions/decisions of working groups and stakeholder panel

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Post SMPRs and collect comments for draft SMPRs