Laboratory Methods and Services Committee

2019 Minutes

• 2019 Midyear - Savannah, GA
  Attachments
  - APHL Cooperative Agreement Updates
  - Optimizing moisture testing by Karl Fischer method (AOAC 991.02)
  - Responding in Time to the New Structure and Components of ISO/IEC 17025:2017
  - Survey of State Lab LC-MS Capabilities
  - Update from Metals Working Group
  - Wet Pet Food Moisture Study
  - MultiPlexed Quantitative Mycotoxin Analysis
  - Report on the AOAC ERP for Sugars and Fructans
  - Laboratory Needs Survey Results
  - VFD Rule: Before and After Put in Place
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team Update January 2019

2018 Minutes

• 2018 Annual - Fort Lauderdale, FL
  Attachments
  - Final Agenda
  - An LC-MS/MS method to determine antibiotic residues in distillers grains
  - Chlortetracycline Working Group Update
  - Testing of Medicated Feeds & Premixes using Activity Based Tests
  - GOODTest Portions Update
  - Validation of Ergot Alkaloids in Feeds by LC-MS/MS
  - Moisture determination in pet food finished products: comparison of testing methods
  - Moisture determination in pet food finished products - Presentation
  - Nitrogen Factors - Moisture Best Practices Workgroup
  - IFPTI - State Human and Animal Food Laboratory Curriculum Framework
  - Metals In Feed Guideline - Working Group
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group
  - Validation of Loss on Drying Methods in Pet Foods
  - GOOD TEST PORTIONS QA / QC: A Critical Need for Laboratory Sampling
  - What’s Next Resolving the Moisture Issue in Pet Foods
• January
  Attachments
  - Final Agenda
  - Link for the public comment info for the Sugar SMPR
  - Milk Replacer Nutrient Evaluation – Exceptions to Typical Nutrient Analysis
  - METALS SURVEY RESULTS
  - NASDA-AAFCO PCAF FRAMEWORK
  - Recommendations and Critical Factors in Determining Moisture in Animal Feeds
  - Semi moist pet food moisture data
  - Elements in feed
  - State Human and Animal Food Laboratory Curriculum Framework
  - AAFCO LM&SC Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group - Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team
  - Recommendations and Critical Factors in Determining Moisture in Animal Feeds

2017 Minutes

• August
  Attachments
  - Survey Results for Method Needs
  - Effects of Particle Size and Extraction Size for Effective Mycotoxin Analysis
  - Development of a Rugged Sugar Method for Animal Feeds
  - ANAB - Metrological Traceability - fundamentals
  - Mositure spreadsheet by Method
  - Determination of Vitamin A in Animal Feed by HPLC/UV
  - Guidance on Obtaining Defensible (GOOD) Test Portions
  - IFPTI - State Human and Animal Food Laboratory Curriculum Framework
  - Moisture Best Practices
  - MOISTURE Best Practices Survey Results
  - Tylosin Working Group Update
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team
• January
  Attachments
  - ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation: The Big Picture and Getting Started
  - Progress to date on the Cooperative Agreement
  - A State’s First Year Experience with FDA Grant to Gain ISO Accreditation
  - Development of a Rugged Sugar Method for Animal Feeds
  - Vitamin A: method evaluation
  - Concept Paper – State Laboratory Centers of Expertise in Feed Testing
  - Copy of methods for approvedadditive and ingredients
  - Critical Factors in Determining Fiber in Feeds and Forages
  - IFPTI - Lab Framework Update
  - Mycotoxin round robin
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team
  - Poster Presentation Diamond Pet Food
  - Sources of Error in Vitamin A Analysis
  - Tylosin Update
  - Best Practices for Submission of Actionable Food and Feed Testing Data Generated in State and Local Laboratories

2016 Minutes

• August
  Attachments
  - Agenda
  - Quality Assurance Subcommittee
  - 2017 Check Sample Brochure
  - Fiber Best Practices Survey Results
  - Feed BIN report
  - MDA Sample Prep split Study
  - Sample Prep Meets ISO17025
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team
• January
  Attachments
  - Crude Protein & Measurement Uncertainty
  - Update on Cooperative Agreement
  - Best Practices Workgoup
  - Multi-Element Update
  - ISO/IEC 17025 Accrediation for Feed Testing Laboratories
  - Mycotoxin in Feed
  - Multi-Residue Determination of Organic Arsenical Drugs in Feeds by LC-MS/MS
  - State Laboratory Curriculum Framework
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group
  - Phosphorus Best Practices Guidelines
  - Phosphorus Method Scope by Matrix

2015 Minutes

• August
  Attachments
  - Fat Soluble Vitamins Work Group
  - Phosphorus Best Practices Guidelines
  - Development of a Rugged Sugar Method for Animal Feeds
  - Mycotoxin in Feed
  - QA/QC Working Group Update
  - FERN
  - Method Scope by Matrix P
  - Parternship for Food Protection (PFP) Update
  - Accreditation to the ISO/IEC 17025 Standard
  - Crude Fat Methods in Corn Derived DDGS
  - CFIA - Recent Feed Contaminant Incidents: Aflatoxin in Corn and Dioxins in Hydrogenated Palm Oil
  - Final Agenda
  - Multi-element Method
• January
  Attachments
  - Agenda
  - Roster
  - Board Survey
  - FDA/ORA/ORS and FERN Update
  - Sugar Method Development for Feed and Pet Foods
  - ISO 17025: 2005 on Reporting
  - Detection and Incidence of Salmonella in Feed and Pet Treats
  - Determination of Amino Acids in Feeds by Acquity AAA UPLC
  - Accreditation to the ISO/IEC 17025 Standard
  - Development and Validation of a Method for the Determination of Ractopamine at Residue Levels
  - Internal Auditing ISO/IEC 17025 Section 4.14
  - Best Practices Working Group Update: Phosphorus
  - Heavy Metals in Feed & Feed Ingredients
  - Mycotoxin Working Group
  - AOCS Official Method Ce 2b-11
  - Sample Preparation Variations – an Assessment of Different Practices based on the Chemical Analysis of Stable Analytes
  - AAFCO LM&SC Fat Soluble Vitamins Working Group Vitamin A Team & Vitamin E Team

2014 Minutes

• July
  Attachments
  - Agenda
  - Website Revamp
  - Update on AOCS Fatty Acid Composition Methods
  - Chlortetracycline: A Single Laboratory Validation
  - AAFCO LM&SC Fat Soluble Working Group - Vitamin A & E Team
  - Sugar Method Development for Feeds and Pet Foods
  - Best Practices Working Group Update
  - Guidelines for Sample Preparation & ISO 6498:2012
  - EN ISO 6498
  - AFRPS
  - FDA Draft Guidance on Nanotechnology
  - CoAg Update
  - PT Final List
• January
  Attachments
  - Agenda
  - Sugar Questionnaire
  - Survey Results
  - Sugar Study Summary
  - Sugar Study Method Performance
  - Sugar Study Chart
  - Crude Fat Methods Considerations
  - Crude Fat Best Practices Guidelines
  - Fat Methods Scope Matrix Table
  - Sampling
  - Sampling Tools
  - Data Uncertainty
  - APHL Presentation
  - Check Sample Stability Study
  - AFDO Presentation
  - IFPTI Competency Framework
  - IFPTI Curriculm Framework

2013 Minutes

• August
• January

2012 Minutes

• August
• January

2011 Minutes

• September
• January

2010 Minutes

• August
• January

2009 Minutes

• September
• August
• January

2008 Minutes

• September
• August
• January

2007 Minutes

• September
• August
• January

2006 Minutes

• September
• August
• January

2005 Minutes

• September
• July
• January

• Draft of Method Needs Template - 02/2010
• Method Need Statement Status - 09/2008
• Amprodium - 01/2009
• Bacitracin - 09/2009
• Carbadox - 08/2007
• Chlortetracycline - 01/2009
• Fatty Acids - 08/2009
• Fructans - 05/2009
• MGA - Melengestrolacetate - 01/2009
• Multi-Element - 02/2010
• Multi-Mycotoxin - 02/2009
• Neomycin - 01/2009
• Multi-Pesticide - 01/2011
• Pyrantel Tartrate - 01/2009
• Starch - 09/2008
• Sugars - 09/2008
• Tylosin (Version 3) - 08/2007
• Vitamin A (Final Draft) - 08/2007
• Vitamin D (Draft - V2) - 09/2011
• Vitamin E (Draft - V2) - 07/2011
• Virginiamycin - 01/2009

• Tylosin Update
• Philbro Virginiamycin
• MBH Notes on Modified Starch Definitions (09/2008)
• R-Biopharm MGA Test Kit Insert
• R-Biopharm Lactose-d-Galactose
• Maltose-Sucrose-Glucose
• Sucrose-d-Glucose-D-Fructose
• Amino Acid Presentation - Wheat (08/2009)
• Amino Acid Presentation - Zhang (08/2009)
• Fat Analysis AOCS (08/2009)
• Fat Analysis - Palmquist (08/2009)
• Tylosin LC-MS (08/2009)
• Study of Amino Acids in DDGs - Zhang (02/2010)
• MGA in Feed (02/2010)
• Phibro Virginiamycin (02/2010)
• R-Biopharm Sugar Summary (02/2010)
• Waters Sugar Summary (02/2010)
• Determination of Antibiotics in Animal Feeds by Ion Chromotography (02/2010)
• Amino Acid Round Robin Study (08/2010)

• 2010 Crop Survey for Mycotoxin Testing
  Click HERE to download the Excel Spreadsheet. The due date for this survey has passed.
• 2011 Method Needs Survey (07/2011)
  Download XLS Spreadsheet - For more information, please contact Aaron Price
• Annual Committee Reports
  
  • 2010 Lab Committee Annual Report - 08/2010
  • 2009 Lab Committee Annual Report - 08/2009
• Carbohydrate Presentations
  
  • HPAE-PAD Analysis of Carbohydrates - 09/2007
  • Carbohydrate Analysis: Column Chemistries & Detection
  • Carbohydrate Analysis: A Practical Perspective
• Distillers Dried Grains
  
  • Recommended Methods of Analysis for Distillers Dried Grains
  • DDGS Final Report and Recommendations - 02/2007)
• Important Link
  
  • FDA CVM Guidance, Compliance, & Enforcement
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Draft Starch Method Validation Protocol
  • Purdue Tumbler Project
  • ISO 2010

AAFCO Quality Assurance/Quality Control Guidelines for Feed Laboratories

Preparing Laboratory Samples Manual