September 2015 SPADA Meeting

SPADA Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays a Voluntary Consensus Body established by AOAC INTERNATIONAL with funding from US DHS S&T, US DHS OHA, and US DOD FACT SHEET

Performance Standards for Threat Detection Equipment

SPADA, an enduring national capability established to leverage the threat community to develop national voluntary consensus standards for third-party evaluation of threat detection tools. Standards guide procurement decisions of end-users, provide first responders with independently validated threat detection tools for incident management, can provide state and local government with evaluation criteria for regulation, can provide minimum acceptance criteria to federal agencies for acquisition decisions.

Participating Organizational Stakeholders

Public Safety Public Health

Professional Organizations Military Federal Law Enforcement State & Local Law

Federal/State Coordinating Federal/State Regulatory Contract Research Academic Institutions

Reference Materials Providers Method Developers

End Users

National Laboratories

Industry - General

Reference to SPADA:  US DHS Framework for a Biothreat Field Response Mission Capability, April 5, 2011

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