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SPADA Meeting Afternoon Agenda

Related NIST Initiatives (1:00 – 2:00 p.m.)

Nancy Lin, NIST

Surrogate Materials for Challenging On‐site Biological Assessment Processes

Mixed Microbiological Reference Materials

Bacterial Pathogen Screening of Suspicious Visible Powders (2:00 – 2:30 p.m.)

Jennifer Arce, PNNL

Considerations for Implementing Sequencing for BioWatch Laboratory

Operations (2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Vikram Munikoti, US Department of Homeland Security

Potential Future SPADA Activities (3:00 – 3:30 p.m.)

Linda Beck, NSWC – Dahlgren, SPADA Co‐Chair

Adjourn

Meeting Goal

•

Approval of the Environmental Organism Panel,

which will be published as a standard in the peer‐

reviewed

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

and

the

Official Methods of Analysis

Compendium

–

All relevant existing SPADA Standard Method

Performance Requirements will be updated to

incorporate the revised Environmental Organism.

•

Discussion of Future Projects