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MEMORANDUM
Date:
To:
From:
Subject:
February 10, 2016
AOAC INTERNATIONAL Official Methods Board
Deborah McKenzie, Staff Liaison – AOAC Official Methods Board
Item II.d. Sole Source Modification of
Official Methods of Analysis
The AOAC OMB Sole Source Modification Working Group has met several times during 2015 and in
January to discuss a process that is credible, defensible, includes stakeholder input while protecting
the Association. The working group has examines a couple of options and is nearing a prospective
solution. President Hill mentioned on the last working group teleconference that a major concern of
members of the AOAC Board of Directors are those method modifications that result in achieving
different results from the original Official Method, such that any procedure should address this
issue.
RECOMMENDATIONS
: To approve and recommend a procedure for handling sole source method
modifications submitted to the AOAC Research Institute.
ENCLOSURES
: Basic Flowchart – Roman
Blended Flowchart ‐ McKenzie
AOAC OMB Meeting
February 10-11, 2016
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