September 2015 SPADA Meeting

• AOAC carefully documents the actions of Stakeholder Panel and the  Working Groups Documentation and Communication  w prepare summar es o t e meet ngs  – Communicate summaries to the stakeholders – Publish summaries in the Referee section of AOAC’s  Inside Laboratory  Management • AOAC publishes its voluntary consensus standards and Official  Methods Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL – – Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL AOAC ill i f h i •

• AOAC publishes the status of standards in the Referee section of  AOAC’s  Inside Laboratory Management

Roles and Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Panel

– Establish working groups to develop standards – Comment, deliberate, and establish voluntary consensus standards

• Stakeholder Panel Working Groups – Develop draft standard method performance requirements – Reconcile comments – Present draft standard to stakeholders

• Official Methods Board – Vet and approve stakeholder panel chair and representative voting members – Assign representative to serve as a resource to stakeholder panel • AOAC Staff – Coordinate stakeholder panel, working groups, and facilitate their meetings.  – Document actions/decisions of working groups and stakeholder panel – Post SMPRs and collect comments for draft SMPRs