AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Programs

1. Proprietary & commercial methods: the association provides independent third party method conformity assessments and certification of commercial and proprietary test kits and rapid assays based on characterized product performance claims by expert evaluation and expert peer review of supporting data collected using aoac approved testing protocols.technical services: the association develops standard method performance requirements to support international trade. It is also an internationally recognized accredited proficiency testing provider that offers an independent measure of quality for performance to food laboratories. The association further supports laboratory quality by developing and publishing accreditation guidelines for food, dietary supplements, and other laboratories.

   $2,634,128 spentof which $29,000 as grants$4,152,270 earned by the program
   57% of program spending

2. Program projects: aoac has contracts with several government and industry groups tasked to establish voluntary consensus standard method performance requirements (smprs) for high priority nutrients and ingredients with the goal of obtaining first action official methods. An ongoing contract for infant formula and adult nutritionals has engaged global stakeholders to produce twenty-four smprs for nutritional ingredients and six methods as final action aoac official methods.similar contracts have developed smprs and evaluated analytical methods for agents of terror and other analyses of interest. Aoac hosts the analytical solutions forum (asf) which builds consensus on methodology impacting the community and develops standards related to food for the strategic growth of the food industry.

   $728,293 spent$1,030,058 earned by the program
   16% of program spending

3. Meetings & education: the association organizes meetings and conferences for the benefit of members and the public to increase their scientific and professional knowledge and current affairs awareness and to provide an opportunity for chemists and microbiologists to present papers.

   $465,094 spent$518,450 earned by the program
   10% of program spending

4. Publications: to achieve its objectives as a standard development organization, the association provides transparency of its processes and documents all activities related to its third-party consensus building in inside laboratory management, aoac's membership magazine. Plus, all standards and new methods resulting from aoac's standards development stakeholder activities are published in both a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the journal of Aoac International, and in aoac's compendium of methods, the official methods of analysis of Aoac International. The journal also serves as the forum for the exchange of information among method researchers and publishes basic and applied original research in the analytical sciences related to foods, drugs, agriculture, and the environment.

   $445,574 spent$282,881 earned by the program
   10% of program spending

5. Membership: there are approximately 2,400 individual and organizational members. These laboratory and management chemists and microbiologists have access to peer-reviewed scientific material, the official methods of analysis, and receive regular communication on a variety of topics.

   $365,259 spent$619,393 earned by the program
   8% of program spending

6. All other

   $23,344 spent
   1% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,661,692.