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D.
Proposal for Representative Voting Members
To develop the proposal for voting members that is representative of the registrants for the SPIFAN
meeting. There is a maximum of 30 seats possible; however, with the number of registrants, 30 voting
seats may be more than is needed to represent the stakeholder panel. There are 37 registered
organizations of which 19‐25 organizations would be appropriate to ensure that the perspectives are
covered.
For 25 representatives and using the Broad Perspectives of Registrants as a based, 3% academia would
allow for one (1) institution. Government is 20% of the registrants, and this would allow for five (5)
agencies. As industry is 69% of the registrants, this would allow for 17 companies. With NGO being 8%
percent of the registrants, this would allow for two (2) organizations.
Adding the regional perspective, 49% of the registrants are from the US which would make 12 members
representative of the stakeholder registrants from the US. Also, 29% of the registrants are European.
Therefore, to represent Europe among the stakeholders require seven (7) voting members. These
numbers need to balance with the regional perspective for the same set of registrants. Two voting
member from New Zealand is representative of Oceania and one voting member of the other regions.
Brazil may be represented by the US as the organization that is in Brazil is also in the US and the
organization may opt to be represented by its US counterpart. China may also be represented by the
organization’s counterpart in Switzerland or in the US.
RECOMMENDATION:
For the AOAC Official Methods Board to review and approved the recommended proposal in Table 2 for
representative voting members for the SPIFAN meeting on Wednesday, March 15, 2017.
Table 2: Proposed Representative Voting Members
Broad Perspective
Specific Perspective
Region
Organization (s)
1.
Academia
Research
Netherlands
RIKILT
2.
Government
Regulatory
US
US FDA
3.
Government
Research
Uruguay
LATU
4.
Government
State Regulatory
US
FL Dept. Ag.
5.
Government
Reference Standards
US
US NIST
6.
Government
Laboratory
Argentina
INTI
7.
NGO
Standards
Netherlands
ISO
8.
NGO
IDF
New Zealand
IDF
9.
Industry
Formula
US
Abbott Nutrition
10.
Industry
Formula
US
Mead Johnson
11.
Industry
Formula
Switzerland/China
Nestle
12.
Industry
Formula
US
FrieslandCampina
13.
Industry
Formula
New Zealand
Fonterra
14.
Industry
Formula
US
Perrigo‐PBM Nutritionals
15.
Industry
Formula
France
Danone