Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL-AOAC StandardsDevDebpres8-2018

OVERVIEW: Project Initiation to Adopted Method

• Urgent or Emerging Analytically‐based Issues  • AOAC forms an Advisory Panel of key stakeholders

Initiation of  Projects

• AOAC forms stakeholder panel and engages working groups to  draft standards • Stakeholder panel develops/approves voluntary consensus  standards – most common are standard method performance  requirements.

Standards  Development

• AOAC forms Expert Review Panel (ERP) to review & approve  methods using approved standard • Adopted methods are published in the Official Methods of  Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL &  Journal of AOAC  INTERNATIONAL

Conformity  Assessment