Task Force Responsibilities
All members have a number of responsibilities including:
- Serve as experts in the field and also agree to identify other experts who can serve on the Task Force or become Chair;
- Develop and prioritize a list of marine and freshwater toxins that need validated methods;
- Assist in identifying existing methods for validation through AOAC validation programs;
- Recommend to the AOAC International Board of Directors policies and procedures necessary to accomplish the mission of the Task Force;
- Help identify and garner sources of funding (except where prohibited by employer) for the validation studies;
- Identify potential participating laboratories, sample identification and acquisition;
- Increase program awareness among stakeholders;
- Assist AOAC in the identifying study directors and or participating in the validation studies;
- Identify and develop other quality measurement tools such as training of the analyst;
- Assist in identifying venues for members of the Task Group or the community to gather and assisting with meeting content.
Terms of Reference and Task Force Membership
Composition of the Task Force is essentially defined in the Terms of Reference, approved by the AOAC Board of Directors in late June, 2004. They describe the Task Force membership as composed of voting and nonvoting members, with the voting members consisting of 13 members (12 plus the Chair). Voting members are composed of a balance of government regulators, academics, and industry members. No single agency has more than 2 voting members. The first list of voting members was approved by AOAC’s President in August 2004. Both voting and nonvoting members make significant contributions to the Task Force. The responsibilities of all Task Force members are also defined in the Terms of Reference.
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