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General, Membership

New Member Orientation Webinar

March 26, 2024

Elevating your Membership by taking advantage of your Membership Benefits As a new AOAC member, are you looking to gain valuable insight into the value and benefits of your membership? […]

Methods & Standards, Contaminants

Call for Experts: Volatile Contaminants

March 22, 2024

AOAC is recruiting subject matter expert volunteers for its Expert Review Panel (ERP) for review of methods for determination of volatile contaminants by gas chromatography, specifically bromoform in animal feed. […]

Methods & Standards

Metagenomics Working Group: Volunteers Needed

March 22, 2024

AOAC will launch the development of three agnostic voluntary consensus standards (including standard method performance requirements) for metagenomic sequencing methodology. The standards will be the metagenomic counterpart to the amplicon […]

Contaminants, Drinking Water, Methods & Standards, Quantitative Microbiology

Legionella in Water WG: Volunteers Needed

March 22, 2024

AOAC will launch the development of a voluntary consensus standard for Legionella in water (potable and nonpotable), including the detection, identification, and enumeration, involving discussion of qualitative and quantitative method […]