SPADA

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.

• Deliberate and reach consensus on a final versions of the standard method

August 30,

2016

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