Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL-AOAC StandardsDevDebpres8-2018
Terminology (con’t)
Term
Definition
Advisory Panel
Planning or ad hoc committee of key stakeholders to identify additional stakeholders and experts, identify priorities and help to plan the first stakeholder meeting.
Key Stakeholder
A stakeholder who may have a great material interest
Consensus
General agreement, but not necessarily unanimity, and includes a process for attempting to resolve objections by interested parties, as long as all comments have been fairly considered, each objector is advised of the disposition of his or her objection(s) and the reasons why, and the consensus body members are given an opportunity to change their votes after reviewing the comments
Fitness for Purpose
Description of what the method needs to do
Standard Method Performance Requirements
Voluntary consensus standard that details the fitness for purpose; including relevant analyte(s), non‐relevant analytes, matrices, potential interferents, and performance characteristics including analytical range, levels of confidence; recoveries, etc…. A vetted balanced representative subset of the stakeholder panel who vote on motions presented to the stakeholder panel on behalf of the stakeholder panel demonstrating consensus of the stakeholders
Voting Members
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