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representatives are from educational and research organizations. Government representatives are from
regulatory agencies including domestic, municipal, federal, and international.
1.
Broad perspectives include a view of the registrants in terms of academia, government, industry
and nongovernmental organizations.
2.
Specific perspectives include further categorization of registrants by categories of industry,
categories of government, and if necessary by types of academia.
3.
Regional perspectives include categorization of registrants by regions of the world and/or
regions of a particular region.
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)
Nearly 80% of the organizational
registrants are from the broad
group of industry. Sixteen (16)
percent of the registrants are from
government agencies. A smaller
amount of the registrants is from
academic organizations three
percent. Three percent of
registrants
are
from
nongovernmental
organizations
can be associated with either
academia,
government,
or
industry, but are not. To develop a
list of representative voting members to demonstrate consensus for SPDS, the industry perspective is
large enough to require further categorization.
B.
Specific Perspectives
(Figure 2)
Registrants are categorized into
specific perspectives. About
one‐fifth of the organizational
registrants
are
contract
research organizations (CROs).
The same percent is also
represented by technology
providers. Dietary supplement
companies represent 18% of
registrants. Both regulatory
agencies and food companies
represent eleven and eight
percent respectively. Whereas
research organizations and
reference
standards
organizations make up five
Figure 2 ‐ Specific Perspectives of Organizational Registrants