General, Membership
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
AOAC is recruiting subject matter expert volunteers for its Expert Review Panel (ERP) for review of methods for determination of bromoform by gas chromatography, specifically bromoform in seaweed and animal […]
Methods & Standards, Microbiology
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, Microbiology
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 […]
Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals
An Expert Review Panel Meeting for SPIFAN methods is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22. Please submit any methods you would like reviewed by the SPIFAN ERP. Some known method needs […]
Methods & Standards, Food General, Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals, Dietary Supplements, Protein
Join us on Wednesday, April 17, 10:00 AM ET, for an informative webinar featuring Professor Seamus O’Mahony from the University College Cork, Ireland, who will review the analytical method needs […]
Journal of AOAC, Publications, Contaminants
The Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL recently added this open-access article: “Effect of selective enrichment storage temperature and duration time on the detection of Salmonella in food” by Lijun Hu and […]
Biothreat Agents, Methods & Standards
The deadline for submitting your vote to demonstrate consensus on the following draft standard has been extended. The draft standard is entitled “Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs®) Detection of Multiple […]
Dietary Supplements, Methods & Standards
AOAC is recruiting subject matter expert volunteers for its Expert Review Panel (ERP) for review of methods for the determination/quantitation of folic acid in all forms of dietary supplements intended […]
Food General, International Methods, Methods & Standards, Microbiology
Expert Review Panel Meetings for Microbiology Methods for Food and Environmental Surfaces Meeting Date Method Submission Deadline Tuesday, April 16 Friday, March 22 Tuesday, July 23 Tuesday, June 11 Tuesday, […]
Methods & Standards
The method submission for consideration and possible evaluation through the AOAC Official MethodsSM program for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in select foods, and for pyrrolizidine alkaloids in select botanical […]
Cannabis, Dietary Supplements, Food General, Publications
AOAC INTERNATIONAL is pleased to announce the publication of the new Guidelines for Laboratories Performing Microbiological and Chemical Analyses of Food, Dietary Supplements, Pharmaceuticals, and Cannabis revised by the Analytical […]
Annual Meeting, Awards
AOAC is looking for volunteers from government, academia, and the private sector with advanced research degrees in food science, microbiology, chemistry, and molecular biology to serve as judges for the […]
Journal of AOAC, Dietary Supplements, International Methods, Methods & Standards, Publications
The Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL is issuing a Call for Authors for a Special Edition on the “Advances in Non-targeted/targeted Methods for Quality Assurance of Food and Botanical Dietary Supplements” […]
Annual Meeting
Registration is now open for the 2025 AOAC INTERNATIONAL Annual Meeting & Exposition. This year’s meeting takes place at the Town & Country Resort located in the Mission Valley area of San […]
Inside Laboratory Management, Methods & Standards, New Initiatives
The March/April 2025 issue of Inside Laboratory Management (ILM)is now available online. The cover feature is “AOAC SMPRs: Celebrating 15 Years of Addressing Critical Needs Through Consensus.” It also includes […]
Annual Meeting, New Initiatives
The Analytical Solutions Forum at the Annual Meeting is AOAC’s idea incubator and serves as a mechanism to identify emerging needs and propose solutions to address them through AOAC programs. […]
Agricultural Materials, Food Authenticity & Fraud, New Initiatives
The Advisory Panel for Organic Authenticity is planning to launch soon. There is still time to join the group of organizations who are supporting this initiative. Developing authenticity testing standards […]
