AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midwest
Section Meeting and Exposition
Event Details
We Look Forward to Announcing the 2025 Event Details Soon!
Join us at the 2025 AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midwest Section Meeting to network with experts, attend insightful sessions, and stay updated on advancements in analytical sciences.
We thank Mérieux NutriSciences for hosting the 2024 Midwest Section AOAC INTERNATIONAL Meeting and Exposition. As a global food safety, quality, and nutrition leader, their expertise perfectly aligns with our mission to foster innovation and collaboration in analytical sciences.
Our 2024 Sponsors: Together We Power Innovation
Our community is grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, who enable us to advance innovative ideas, foster knowledge exchange, and enhance the attendee experience. Look at this year’s sponsors, ranging from silver to gold to platinum levels.
The 2024 Lineup of Vendors
Meet Our President
Luke Gray currently serves as a Principal Scientist, Chemistry Validations for Neogen Corporation, where he has managed scientists in the U.S. and U.K. in the validation of new and modified methods as well as the pursuit of third-party certifications and approvals with a focus on methods related to food quality & nutritional analysis, natural toxins, allergens, and sanitation. Luke contributes to strategic planning and budgeting processes and ensures his team’s work in the lab is aligned with corporate strategy and project priorities. He currently serves on the AOAC Gluten & Food Allergens Advisory Panel, Committee on Safety & Security, and Task Force on Early Career Researchers. He also contributed to developing the CASP SMPR for mycotoxin screening in cannabis plant material and derivatives. Luke is also a primary driver of Neogen’s mycotoxin method submissions to the USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service. Luke’s method validation efforts have led to 12 publications and a presentation at the 2024 AOAC Midwest Section conference comparing the technical demands of AOAC PTM and USDA FGIS Validations.
About the Midwest Section AOAC
The Geographic area of the Midwest section (in About the Midwest Section AOAC) is more with the merger of the Midwest and Central sections:
Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin to Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western, Pennsylvania, West Virginia (and Canadian Provinces Manitoba and Saskatchewan).
The section shall promote and support the purpose and objectives of the Association, “promoting quality measurements and methods validation in the analytical sciences, “as stated in the “AOAC INTERNATIONAL Bylaws,” Article II, by:
1. Promoting interest and participation in the Association’s purpose and programs.
2. Providing a regional focus and forum for the Association and its members and addressing regional analytical needs.
3. Providing a means of increasing analytical scientists’ knowledge and technical skills, primarily through seminars, forums, workshops, and other similar technical updates.
4. Providing means to improve communications with the Association’s membership.
5. Identifying and communicating with appropriate non-member laboratories, organizations, educational institutions, firms, and individuals in the region to encourage their participation in Section and Association programs; and
6. Developing cooperative relationships with educational institutions, government, industry, and other organizations interested in method development and validation.
