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AOAC carefully documents the actions of Stakeholder Panel and the
Working Groups
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Documentation and Communication
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Communicate summaries to the stakeholders
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Publish summaries in the
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Inside Laboratory
Management
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AOAC publishes its voluntary consensus standards and
Official
Methods
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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AOAC publishes the status of standards in the Referee section of
AOAC’s
Inside Laboratory Management
Roles and Responsibilities
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Stakeholder Panel
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Establish working groups to develop standards
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Comment, deliberate, and establish voluntary consensus standards
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Stakeholder Panel Working Groups
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Develop draft standard method performance requirements
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Reconcile comments
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Present draft standard to stakeholders
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Official Methods Board
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Vet and approve stakeholder panel chair and representative voting members
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Assign representative to serve as a resource to stakeholder panel
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AOAC Staff
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Coordinate stakeholder panel, working groups, and facilitate their meetings.
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Document actions/decisions of working groups and stakeholder panel
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Post SMPRs and collect comments for draft SMPRs