The Association welcomes three new members who joined the AOAC Board of Directors at the 122nd AOAC Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, USA: Robert E. Brackett , James M. Harnly, and Hilde Skaar Norli.

Director-at-Large Robert E. Brackett, senior vice president and chief science and regulatory officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), Washington, DC, USA. Prior to coming to GMA, Brackett was director at the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, where he provided executive leadership to the Center’s development and implementation of programs and policies relative to the composition, quality, safety, and labeling of foods, food and color additives, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.

Director-at-Large James M. Harnly, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Harnly is a research leader in the Food Composition and Methods Development Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, at USDA. Harnly is a recognized expert in the field of analytical chemistry and instrumentation, and has over 30 years of professional experience with industry and the government. In the last 8 years, his research has shifted to metal speciation, the development of methods for free amino acids, profiling methods for phenolic compounds, and chemometric methods for pattern recognition of chemical fingerprints.

Director Hilde Skaar Norli, Nordic Committee on Food Analysis (NMKL), Oslo, Norway. At NMKL, she is responsible for the management of the day-to-day operations of the committee’s activities. One of Norli’s main focus as a member of the AOAC Board of Directors is to continue to increase AOAC’s international presence. “I would like to see AOAC play a key role in the international arena by providing validated methods, guidelines, and scientifically based recommendations that are relevant to the analytical communities,” she said.

The next meeting of the AOAC Board of Directors is on December 8-9, 2008, at AOAC headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Full coverage of the new Board of Directors will be included in the November/December issue of Inside Laboratory Management.

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