Cannabis
Consumers have a right to safe cannabis and cannabis-derived products that are free of pathogens. That was the message that Patrick Bird, Chair of AOAC’s CASP Microbiology in Cannabis and […]
Cannabis
Leading scientists developing standards and Official Methods for cannabis products and hemp May 30, 2019 (Rockville, MD)—AOAC INTERNATIONAL today announced the formation of working groups for the Cannabis Analytical Science […]
Sections
The AOAC Midwest Section held their 38th Annual meeting and Exposition May 20-22. Ninety-one members gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, to attend this year’s conference that included more than 20 […]
Biothreat Agents
On August 13, AOAC’s Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays (SPADA) will meet to review draft documents from its working groups on bacterial strain verification, in-silico analysis, and soil testing. […]
Research Institute
After many years away, AOAC INTERNATIONAL returned to the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, July 21-23, 2019.
Dietary Supplements, Awards, Membership
National Institutes of Health expert in dietary supplements analysis honored for lifetime scientific achievement
Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals
AOAC is reopening the working groups for Vitamins A, E, B12, and D, Folic Acid, and Inositol to re-examine the AOAC First Action methods not recommended for Final Action for […]
Food Authenticity & Fraud
July 2, 2019 – Quarterly update on progress being made by the Targeted Testing (TT) and Non-targeted Testing (NTT) Working Groups. View the PDF
Annual Meeting, Sections
AOAC’s 17 Sections will be well represented at the Annual Meeting in Denver in September 2019.
Cannabis
May 28, 2019 – As a global leader in food and agriculture safety standards and analytical methods, AOAC INTERNATIONAL is answering the call of regulators and private sector laboratories to […]
Cannabis
AOAC CASP Pesticide Method Think Tank working group is refocusing to create a best practices document to develop and validate methods for pesticide residue analysis in cannabis. Efforts will be […]
Annual Meeting, Microbiology, Agricultural Materials, Cannabis, Contaminants, Food Colors, Food General, Dietary Supplements
The 2024 AOAC Call for Poster Abstracts will be open from Wednesday, May 1, 2024 to Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The Call for Poster Abstracts will close on Wednesday, May […]
Food General, Journal of AOAC, Contaminants
Call for Papers: Methods for detection, quantitation, removal and/or mitigation of chemicals of concern from food matrices and packaging materials Guest Editor: Greg Curtzwiler, Ph.D. The Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL […]
Membership
November 18, 1932-March 15, 2024 George Webster Latimer, Jr., a Fellow of AOAC (1997) and a long-time member, passed away on March 15, 2024. He was 92 years old. Latimer […]
