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Documentation and Communication
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AOAC will carefully document the proceedings of the
stakeholder panel and the working groups
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AOAC will prepare summaries of the proceedings
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Communicate summaries to the stakeholder panel
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Publish summaries in the Referee section of AOAC’s
Inside
Laboratory Management
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AOAC posts draft standards for comment
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AOAC issues calls for experts (for ERPs)
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AOAC issues call for methods (for candidate method
authors)
ERP Overview
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ERP reviews all methods and adopts methods as First
Action
Official Methods of Analysis
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ERP tracks methods for two (2) years
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ERP determines which method will be recommended for
Final Action
Official Methods
status to the AOAC Official
Methods Board
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ERP reviews any additional information on the
method including user feedback