In September, at the AOAC International Annual Meeting in Denver, Q Laboratories’ Chief Scientific Officer Erin Crowley was announced as President-elect of the AOAC International Board of Directors. She will complete one year as President-elect and then serve as President of the BOD for 12 months beginning with the 2020 AOAC Annual Meeting in Orlando.

Erin is Chair of the AOAC Official Methods Board and a Fellow of AOAC.  She previously served as Chair of the International Stakeholder Panel on Alternative Methods (ISPAM) and was awarded AOAC Method of the Year in 2009, 2014, and 2018.

Duties as President-elect include working as a member of the Executive Board on the International Board of Directors to achieve the mission of AOAC International; to bring together government, industry, and academia to establish standard methods of analysis that ensure the safety and integrity of foods and other products that impact public health around the world.