For 125 years AOAC INTERNATIONAL has been meeting the needs of analytical scientists for confidence in analytical results through the development and validation of AOAC® Official Methods. The Official Methods of Analysis is an international source of methods, with many countries and international organizations contributing their expertise to method validation. The Official Methods of Analysis is the most comprehensive and reliable collection of chemical and microbiological methods available in the world and are contained in many of the Codex food standards.

Highlights of this new edition include :

• 16 Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs)
• 31 methods adopted as Final Action
• 7 New appendices on guidelines for SMPRs, voluntary consensus standards, probability of detection, validation of microbiological methods for foods and environmental surfaces, validation of dietary supplements and botanicals, single-laboratory validation of infant formula and adult nutritionals, and validation of food allergens.
• A new subchapter on General Screening Methods that includes screening methods for bacteria.