The AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midyear Meeting and Analytical Solutions Forum has evolved to empower the scientific community to take the lead on addressing global issues.

The Midyear Meeting serves as a venue for the AOAC community to come together to advance needed analytical methods through dialogue and consensus. The 2023 Midyear Meeting will take place March 13 – 17, 2023 at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
 
The Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF) is a mechanism for global stakeholders to identify new technologies and emerging analytical needs and to propose actions to address them. During the Midyear Meeting, the ASF introduces and triages new ideas to be further developed for potential adoption as AOAC projects or programs.

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Analytical Solutions Forum (ASF) Plenary
Keynote Speaker

Dr. Ben Miller, Vice President, Public Health & Regulatory Affairs, The Acheson Group (TAG)
Monday, March 13, 2023, at 1:45 PM
“Critical Food Safety Trends of 2022 and Expectations for 2023 – and Beyond”

Many recent high-profile challenges have had a global impact on the food supply and prompted new or different approaches to ensuring safe food. Dr. Miller will discuss some of the recent trends and changes in food safety over the last year and where this is heading in the future. He will specifically discuss some of the recent high-profile events that have had an impact on US food regulatory structure.  Specific areas such as heavy metals, chemical residues, new protein sources, the ongoing challenges for produce as well as the importance of reliable analytical methods and how to oversee their development will also be discussed.