AOAC SPADA February 2015 Meeting Book

Summary  SPADA develops open, documented consensus standards, consistent with NTTAA and OMB A-119, that support the biothreat detection community  SPADA has developed and published Standard Method Performance Requirements for a number of biothreat agents  SPADA has developed a testing and certification process for biological threat detectors  Tools have been tested to SPADA Standards  SPADA standards have supported government programs - BioWatch Gen3 T&E - DoD Critical Reagents Program - Guided sequencing programs of DHS S&T and DTRA-CB  SPADA currently supports the standards needs of the DHS BioWatch Program and the First Responder Community

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