2005-2006 Report of the Technical Committee

摘要

Thirteen technical subcommittees were active during 2005-2006. As a result, three methods were recommended for approval by the Board of Directors for inclusion in the Methods of Analysis (MOA), and one method was recommended for inclusion in the newly formed "Provisional Methods" section of the MOA. This new section will contain methods that, for whatever reason, do not meet the precision and accuracy requirements for regular inclusion but would still be useful to the membership and new technologies/methodologies for which not enough laboratories would have instrumentation to collaboratively test or for which typical collaborative testing could not be carried out. The three methods recommended for approval are Elemental Analysis of Beer and Wort by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy, chaired by Dana Sedin (Coors Brewing Company); Method for Preparation of Wort for Color Determination, chaired by Karl Lakenburges (Anheuser-Busch); and Anton-Paar Alcolyser for Measurement of Alcohol and Original Extract in Flavored Alcoholic Beverages, chaired by Mark Eurich (Coors Brewing Company). The provisional method recommended is Methods for Measurement of Yeast Vitality, chaired by Sylvie van Zandycke (Lallemand, Inc.).