2017 Mid-Year Meeting Voting & ERP Panels

percent each of registrants.  The additional 11% is represented by trade organizations, consulting  firms, product certification organizations, and method developers. 

C. Regional Perspectives of Registrants (Figure 3)

There are 9 countries represented by organizational registrants for SPDS.  US registrants make up almost 80% of the registrants.  Two percent of registrants are from Canada.  Fourteen percent of registrants  are  European organizations. Three percent of registrants are from Oceania, and two percent of the registrants are from South America.

Figure 3 ‐ Regional Registrants

D. Proposal for Representative Voting Members To develop the proposal for voting members that is representative of the registrants for the SPDS 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 38 registered organizations of which 19‐21 organizations would be appropriate to ensure that the perspectives are covered. For 21 representatives and using the Broad Perspectives of Registrants as a based, 3% academia would  allow for one (1) institution.  Government is 16% of the registrants, and this would allow for three (3) to  four (4) agencies.  As industry is 78% of the registrants, this would allow for 16‐17 companies. With NGO  being 3% percent of the registrants, this would allow for at least one organization.    Adding  the  regional  perspective,  79%  of  the  registrants  are  from  the  US  which  would  make  16‐17  members representative of the stakeholder registrants from the US.  Canadian registrants total 2%, which  would allow for 1 representative.  Also, 14% of the registrants are European.  Therefore, three (3) voting  members  will  represent  Europe  stakeholders.    These  numbers  need  to  balance  with  the  regional  perspective for the same set of registrants.  One voting member from Oceania is representative of this  region.  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.   

RECOMMENDATION:

For the AOAC Official Methods Board to review and approved the recommended proposal in Table 2 for  representative voting members for the SPDS meeting on Friday, March 17, 2017.