September 2015 SPADA Meeting

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As an international standards development organization, AOAC must
maintain the following principles throughout all its standard setting
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AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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• Transparency
• Openness
• Balance of Interests
• Due Process
• Consensus
• Appeals
Stakeholder Panel Role and Output
1st • Defines specific analytical issue(s)
• Forms working groups to draft
2nd standard(s) that address the issue(s)
3rd • Comments on draft standard(s)
4th • Adopts voluntary consensus standard(s)
AOAC Voluntary Consensus Standards
• Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs)
– Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
– Manuscript published in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL