(a) The Service hereby adopts by reference the most recent edition of the Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC International as delineating the sampling and analytical procedures to be applied under the Act and this title.
(b) The Service may substitute alternate methods for any AOAC sampling or analytical procedure if it deems the alternate procedure more appropriate to the circumstance and sample and there is scientific data or reasoning to support the substitution.
(c) Copies of sampling or analytical procedures can be obtained by writing to Office of the Texas State Chemist, P.O. Box 3160, College Station, Texas 77841 or by writing to AOAC International, 481 North Frederick Avenue, Suite 500, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877.

Source Note: The provisions of this §61.41 adopted to be effective October 7, 1983, 8 TexReg 3806; amended to be effective May 26, 1992, 17 TexReg 3471; amended to be effective January 1, 1996, 20 TexReg 10593; amended to be effective January 1, 2004, 28 TexReg 10927