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Documentation and Publications
Documentation
• AOAC carefully documents the actions and decisions of
the Expert Review Panel
• AOAC will prepare summaries of the meetings
• Communicate summaries to the Expert Review Panel
members and method authors
• Publish summaries in the
Referee
section of AOAC’s
Inside Laboratory Management
Publication
• AOAC publishes adopted methods in:
•
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
•
Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
• AOAC publishes the status of methods in the Referee
section of AOAC’s
Inside Laboratory Management
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Related Roles and Responsibilities
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Official Methods Board
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Vet and approve stakeholder panel chair
& representative voting members for
each meeting
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Vet and approve ERP membership
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Review ERP recommendations and render
decisions regarding Final Action, Repeal
or continuance
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Assign OMB representative to serve as a
resource to stakeholder panels and ERPs
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AOAC Stakeholder Panels
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Meet in person to develop standards
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Assign working groups to draft standards
method performance requirements
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Vetted representative voting members
demonstrate consensus on behalf of
stakeholders
•
AOAC Working Groups
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Draft standards, reconcile comments,
present draft standards to stakeholder
panel for approval
•
AOAC Expert Review Panels
–
Review methods and meet in person to
render decisions on methods for First
Action Official Methods status.
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Track First Action Official Methods and
modify, if necessary
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years to OMB for Final Action,
continuance, or Repeal
•
AOAC Staff
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Business direction
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Manage/coordinate stakeholder panel,
working group and expert review panel
activities and meetings
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Issue any calls for experts and methods
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Provide trainings and orientations
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Maintain website and communication
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Document and publish actions and
decisions
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Publish approved standards and
methods
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Coordinate comments on standards
and methods
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