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Documentation and Communication • AOAC will carefully document the proceedings of the  stakeholder panel and the working groups • AOAC will prepare summaries of the proceedings – Communicate summaries to the stakeholder panel – Publish summaries in the Referee section of AOAC’s  Inside  Laboratory Management • AOAC posts draft standards for comment • AOAC issues calls for experts (for ERPs) • AOAC issues call for methods (for candidate method  authors)

ERP Overview • ERP reviews all methods and adopts methods as First  Action Official Methods of Analysis • ERP tracks methods for two (2) years – ERP determines which method will be recommended for  Final Action Official Methods  status to the AOAC Official  Methods Board

• ERP reviews any additional information on the   method including user feedback

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