{"id":9599,"date":"2023-01-25T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabisindustryjournal.com\/?post_type=news_article&amp;p=36185"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:54:59","slug":"aoac-international-names-new-cso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/aoac-international-names-new-cso\/","title":{"rendered":"AOAC International Names New\u00a0CSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/aoac-international-names-new-cso\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>AOAC International, an independent nonprofit standards development organization has announced the appointment of Dr. Katerina (Kate) Mastovska as their new deputy executive director and chief science officer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36186\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisindustryjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kate-Mastovska-scaled-e1674494676182-255x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36186\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aoac-international-names-new-cso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Katerina Mastovska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most recently, Dr. Mastovska served as chief science officer for the Eurofins US Food Division. She has been an active member of AOAC for almost twenty years, winning the Harvey W. Wiley Award in 2021, their highest scientific honor. \u201cI\u2019m delighted to join the AOAC staff and lead the team of dedicated scientists,\u201d says Dr. Mastovska. \u201cAOAC has a critical role in food safety, and I\u2019m inspired to continue to be a part of this important work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AOAC International works actively in the cannabis industry through their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoac.org\/AOAC_Prod_Imis\/AOAC\/SD\/CASP\/AOAC_Member\/SDCF\/CASP\/CASP_Main.aspx?hkey=84cab82f-5fa2-4997-88b2-4f66e8588d40\">Cannabis Analytical Science Program (CASP),<\/a>\u00a0a working group established in 2019 that is dedicated to developing standardized methods in cannabis testing. In the world of cannabis lab testing, AOAC International creates standards under the standard method performance requirements (SMPR\u00ae) moniker, which are detailed descriptions of what analytical methods should be able to do.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, CASP launched their own <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisindustryjournal.com\/news_article\/aoac-launches-cannabis-proficiency-testing-program\/\">proficiency testing program<\/a> last year and launched their first round, shipping samples to labs across the country in the Fall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOAC International, an independent nonprofit standards development organization has announced the appointment of Dr. Katerina (Kate) Mastovska as their new deputy executive director and chief science officer. Dr. Katerina Mastovska Most recently, Dr. Mastovska served as chief science officer for the Eurofins US Food Division. She has been an active member of AOAC for almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8459,7814,9152,5062,8502,52,9153,8509,8561,8052,9154,9155,1964,5334,2254,5763,9156,8514,2139,8515,184,2299,77,9157,9,9158,5235,421,8518,8520,9159,8944,9160,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8481,7815,9161,5063,8528,2632,9162,8535,8583,8053,9163,9164,4532,5350,4821,5771,9165,8540,4707,8541,2762,4866,2655,9166,9167,5237,2999,8544,8546,9168,8967,9169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}