AOAC New Initiatives

AOAC’s mission to ensure the safety and integrity of foods and other products that impact public health requires identifying and meeting new challenges as they arise. AOAC meets those challenges through its Analytical Solutions Forum and New Initiatives programs.

The Analytical Solutions Forum is a mechanism for AOAC’s global stakeholders to identify emerging analytical needs, propose actions to address them, and identify emerging technologies to support them.

AOAC’s New Initiatives process takes the next step by bringing together the human and financial resources to support these priority standards development projects.

AOAC’s strategic operating model includes traditional stakeholder panels as well as focused, self-sustaining programs. Depending on community needs, each program may integrate elements from AOAC’s suite of capabilities:

• Standards and methods development
• Proficiency testing
• Training and mentoring
• Scientific publications
• Horizon-scanning
• International harmonization

Support AOAC New Initiatives

The primary vehicle for supporting New Initiatives is through participation in an AOAC Advisory Panel. Advisory Panels are program-specific groups comprising representatives from organizations who commit to contributing funding each year and who are instrumental in determining priorities for the program’s working groups.

Pesticide Residues in Herbs and Spices Initiative

AOAC’s Pesticides in Herbs & Spices initiative is working to strengthen food safety, trade, and consumer trust by developing globally recognized analytical standards, methods & guidance for pesticide testing.

Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons (MOH)

AOAC’s Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons Project aims to develop consensus-based standards, harmonize analytical methods, and support the advancement of methodologies for mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) analysis in food, infant formula, and dietary supplement products.