80 / 88
As needed, registrants will be further categorized as or if needed to clarify perspectives.
Figure 1‐Broad Perspectives of Organizational Registrants
A.Broad Perspectives (Figure 1)
Government registrants are the
largest sector with 70% of the
organizational
registrants.
Industry registrants are at 22%.
There
are
no
academic
institutional registrants for this
meeting;
however,
both
independent
registrants
and
nongovernmental organizational
registrants are both four percent
each. To develop a list of
representative voting members to
demonstrate
consensus
for
SPADA,
the
government
perspective is large enough to
require further categorization.
B.
Specific Perspectives
(Figure 2)
Registrants are categorized
into specific perspectives.
Just more than one‐fifth of
the organizational registrants
are military organizations.
Eighteen percent represents
the
research
category,
including within the military
and the national laboratories.
Both reference standards and
method
developers
organizations represent 13%
of
the
registrants.
Government
coordination
agencies
and
consulting
registrants are represented at
nine percent each. The
additional 16% is represented
by food regulators, product manufacturers, state regulators and method technology providers.
C.
Regional Perspectives of Registrants
All registrants are from within the United States.
Figure 2 ‐ Specific Perspectives of Organizational Registrants