Overview

January 15-17 is the 2024 NAICC (National Association of Independent Crop Consultants) Annual Meeting and AG PRO EXPO in San Antonio. This is an important event as FDA and EPA both utilize data collection in support of their mission from various Contract Research Organizations (CRO). In addition field and lab cooperators associated with NAICC provide trials and studies for major agricultural sponsors from which data is used by EPA and FDA for safety compliance, crop analysis and other important mission critical support activities. This briefing will include a live discussion of EPA topics based on scientific methodology (eStudy) which is used collect data, manage data and generate reports to EPA, FDA and other federal agencies. 

This briefing will focus on data EPA and FDA briefing is scheduled for 45-minutes and will include a product overview of how the iAdvantage eStudy platform is utilized to manage EPA and FDA data collection and integrity. eStudy is in use by organizations reporting data to EPA and its use assists scientists, program management, and leadership who require clean, verifiable data collection. This helps address agency challenges with R&D data integrity and provide best practices for effective design protocols to ensure data quality that minimizes data cleansing delays and costs while maintaining strict EPA regulatory compliance and 100% data integrity requirements.

Recommended attending personnel will include EPA and FDA staff with data collection oversight, field support personnel, and program personnel responsible for maximizing agency R&D program effectiveness, as well as procurement personnel responsible for R&D contracts.

IMPORTANT: This briefing will include a vendor-provided product overview.

Agency Panelist Participation

Agency participation is encouraged for this briefing. If you or one of your EPA colleagues would like to be a contributor or panelist in this discussion, please contact support@govbrief.us or call 888-818-8726 to coordinate your participation. GovBrief provides free access to all government presenters and will distribute all accompanying documentation at no charge.

Important: This briefing uses Zoom based communication connection via your network. This briefing will be accessible via phone if you are unable to connect online. Instructions will be provided upon registration.

This GovBrief event is not part of the of official NAICC program. Instead, this GovBrief session is an on-site report from Daniel Thompson from iAdvantage who will discuss specific topics that may be of interest to EPA and FDA researchers, study coordinators and scientists who collect and utilize crop data. We have also been asked to make it clear that the VIP suite hosted by iAdvantage is not part of the NAICC program and requests to be included are being handled by Daniel Thompson at dthompson@iadvantagesoftware.com.