9.7.2014 SPSFAM Meeting Book

Co‐Chair, SPSFAM  Dr. Arti Arora  The Coca‐Cola Company 

Arti Arora, Ph.D., is a Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Director at The Coca‐ Cola Company.  In her current role, Arti provides scientific and regulatory  guidance on issues related to food safety, chemistry, and nutrition.  She has  over 12 years of food industry experience in various technical positions.  Prior  to joining The Coca Cola Company, Arti was a Technical Manager in the Food  Chemistry Labs at the Kellogg Company with responsibility for the  chromatography and mass spectrometry groups.  Arti has held various  leadership positions with the Institute of Food Technologists, American  Chemical Society and American Oil Chemists’ Society.  She has served twice  as a member of the USDA National Research Initiative grant review panel.   She is currently a member of the External Advisory Committee for the  Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois.  Arti received a  Ph.D. in Food Chemistry from Michigan State University, a   M.S. in Food Science from the University of Maine, and a B.Sc. (Honors) in  Nutrition from the University of Delhi.  Her post‐doctoral research was in the  Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Arizona.    Erik Konings has been an active member of AOAC since 1997. He is currently  serving as a director on the Board of Directors and a member of the Advisory  Panel membership on the Advisory Panel for the Stakeholder Panel on Infant  Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPIFAN). Previous AOAC volunteer roles have  included chairmanship of the SPIFAN Working Group on Folic Acid,  membership on the AOAC Methods Committee on Food Nutrition, and  service as a General Referee for Water Soluble Vitamins. Erik Konings started  his professional career at the then called Food Inspection Service in  Maastricht, the Netherlands. Konings was involved with the development of  analytical methods for the analysis of vitamins in food and food products. In  1996 he started his PhD study “Dietary folates in human nutrition” in  collaboration with the departments of Human Biology and Epidemiology of  Maastricht University. During this study, which he completed in 2001, he  obtained a MSc‐degree in epidemiology. Konings has worked as Senior  Scientific Staff Officer in the department of Research & Development of the  Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) in the in the  Netherlands, as Scientific Officer at the Data Collection and Exposure Unit for  the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, and since June  2009, in a position in the Quality and Safety Department of the Nestlé  Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. Konings is convenor of a working  group on vitamins & carotenoids of the European Committee for  Standardization (CEN), a member of the International Dairy Federation (IDF),  Standing Committee Analytical Methods for Additives and Contaminants, and  participates in Codex Committee for Methods of Analysis and Sampling  (CCMAS). In 2012 he was appointed convenor for ISO TC 34 Working Group  14 on Vitamins, carotenoids, and other nutrients. He has (co)authored more  than 30 scientific publications. Co‐Chair, SPSFAM  Erik Konings  Nestle Research Center