Aoac International

Program projects: aoac has contracts with several government and industry groups tasked to establish voluntary consensus standard method performance requirements (smprs) for high priority nutrients and ingredients with the goal of obtaining first action official methods. An ongoing contract for infant formula and adult nutritionals has engaged global stakeholders to produce twenty-four smprs for nutritional ingredients and six methods as final action aoac official methods.similar contracts have developed smprs and evaluated analytical methods for agents of terror and other analyses of interest. Aoac hosts the analytical solutions forum (asf) which builds consensus on methodology impacting the community and develops standards related to food for the strategic growth of the food industry.

Membership: there are approximately 2,400 individual and organizational members. These laboratory and management chemists and microbiologists have access to peer-reviewed scientific material, the official methods of analysis, and receive regular communication on a variety of topics.

Publications: to achieve its objectives as a standard development organization, the association provides transparency of its processes and documents all activities related to its third-party consensus building in inside laboratory management, aoac's membership magazine. Plus, all standards and new methods resulting from aoac's standards development stakeholder activities are published in both a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the journal of aoac international, and in aoac's compendium of methods, the official methods of analysis of aoac international. The journal also serves as the forum for the exchange of information among method researchers and publishes basic and applied original research in the analytical sciences related to foods, drugs, agriculture, and the environment.

Meetings & education: the association organizes meetings and conferences for the benefit of members and the public to increase their scientific and professional knowledge and current affairs awareness and to provide an opportunity for chemists and microbiologists to present papers.

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