September 2015 SPADA Meeting

Ad hoc Joint Working Group Results

• Part 1 was revised to clarify, but remained  essentially the same.

• Part 2  essentially the same but updated to: • remove near neighbors. • remove unavailable DNA. • make adjustment specific to specific targets.

• Part 3 for Potential Interferents added.

Part 3 :  Potential Interferants Study

• Supplements the Environmental Factors Study.

• Applicable to all biological threat agent detection  assays for Department of Defense applications. 

• Interferants shall be spiked at a final test  concentration  of 1 µg/ml directly into the sample  collection buffer.  Interferants may be pooled.