AOAC ISPAM Food Allergen WG Meeting Book (12-15-16)

AOAC ISPAM "Food Allergen" Working Group Questions/Comments Form

Submission Date

2016-12-07 09:54:02

First & Last Name

Sefat E Khuda

Organization

US FDA

E-mail Address

sefat.khuda@fda.hhs.gov

Date Submitted

12-07-2016

Question/Comment-1

Title: Quantitation of Whole Egg Allergens by ELISA-based Methods

My suggestion: Quantitation of chicken whole Egg proteins by Antibody-based or Immunochemical Methods

Because under analytical techniques, there are different techniques like ELISA or other binding based technologies. Guessing that, other binding based technologies are also utilizing antibodies like ELISA. Regulation requires labeling of egg based on the presence of egg proteins in food. ELISA against whole chicken egg detects both allergenic and non-allergenic proteins from egg.