AOAC has embarked on a global effort to identify tissue residue methods for the determination of four animal health drugs: ractopamine, tylosin, monensin, and narasin. The methods assembled will be reviewed by an Expert Review Panel (ERP), and a “candidate method” for each drug will be selected by the ERP for further evaluation and validation (single laboratory and multilaboratory).

Interested parties (industry, government, and academia) are invited to submit tissue residue methods for these animal health drugs, including a summary of validation data, to Al Pohland, AOAC Chief Scientific Officer, at apohland@aoac.org by December 19, 2008.

In addition, AOAC invites all experts in animal drug tissue residue methodology to join our pool of experts for animal health drugs, from which ERP members will be selected. CVs may be submitted to Al Pohland at apohland@aoac.org.

For more information, contact Bob Rathbone, AOAC Senior Director of Publications and Method Validation, at rrathbone@aoac.org.

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