September 2015 SPADA Meeting

AOAC INTERNATIONAL

As an international standards development organization, AOAC must  maintain the following principles throughout all its standard setting  ti iti ac v es:

• Transparency • Openness • Balance of Interests • Due Process • Consensus • Appeals

Stakeholder Panel Role and Output

• Defines specific analytical issue(s)

1 st

• Forms working groups to draft standard(s) that address the issue(s)

2 nd

• Comments on draft standard(s)

3 rd

• Adopts voluntary consensus standard(s)

4 th

AOAC Voluntary Consensus Standards  • Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs)  – Published in Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – Manuscript published in  Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL