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AOAC INTERNATIONAL is a globally recognized, independent, not-for-profit association founded in 1884. To attain its vision of “worldwide confidence in analytical results,” AOAC serves communities of the analytical sciences by providing the tools and processes necessary to develop voluntary consensus standards or technical standards through stakeholder consensus and working groups in which the fit-for-purpose and method performance criteria are established and fully documented.

AOAC is committed to linking the success of its business model with a resolve to helping its clients reach their institutional and corporate goals. To this end, AOAC is poised to tailor its services to meet the analytical quality needs of its customers. A turnkey approach may be utilized to develop a package of services for our clients.

AOAC provides credibility, acceptability, and defensibility that are the results of the Association's status as an independent, science-based, third-party organization with a 125-year-old brand name. From the traditional Official Methods^SM and Annual Meetings to the newer consensus-building activities and prevalidation documentation, AOAC aims to continue to serve its members and maintain the Association's relevance.



AOAC is comprised of an international membership of chemists, microbiologists, laboratory managers, and statisticians. AOAC membership numbers nearly 3200 members from more than 90 countries. AOAC has 17 Sections located in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Latin America and the Caribbean, Canada, Taiwan, and Thailand. Corporations, government agencies, and academic institutions may join AOAC as either Organizational Affiliates or Sustaining Member Organizations.