AOAC SPIFAN Stakeholder Program Meeting Book (March 17, 2021)

Current Situation – AOAC Call to Action Recommendation 1 – Establish working group ƒ Establish expert panel of volunteers (in collaboration w/ ILSI-NA CHO Group) • Review of current state of sensory evaluations • Capability of assigning quantifiable metric • Landscape of current technologies for verifying regulatory compliance • Expert assessment of what’s possible given current state of technologies Recommendation 2 – Recruit experts from multiple SH groups ƒ Recruit expert volunteers from (but not limited to): AOAC’s SPIFAN, fructans, low- lactose WGs x IAFNS CHO Group x Industry sensory experts Recommendation 3 – Develop opinion paper ƒ Develop opinion paper on complex nature of measuring sweetness and submit to CCMAS for discussion in May’21 Recommendations from call to action at AOAC Annual Meeting, Sep 2020

CCMAS: Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling CCNFSDU: Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses CHO: Carbohydrate(s) IAFNS: Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition

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Status Update – AOAC Ad Hoc Expert Panel Panelist Affiliations Abbott x Al Baqa Applied U. x Eurofins Scientific x First Source Lab Solns. x Fonterra x IAFNS x INCA x LATU x Megazyme x Nestlé x PepsiCo x Reckitt Benckiser x Rotating Disc Expertise Analytical chemistry x Sensory analysis x CHO/sweeteners x AOAC, ISO, IDF, Codex stds

Expected Outputs Deliverable Scope

Audience

Codex CRD • Analytes: CHO

CCMAS delegates

• Commodities: FUF • Methods: Analytical/instrumental; sensory • Analytes: CHO; sweeteners; other molecules • Commodities: FUF; confectionary; food/beverage • Methods: Analytical/instrumental; sensory

Opinion paper

CCNFSDU delegates; Scientific community

CCMAS: Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling CCNFSDU: Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses CHO: Carbohydrate(s) CRD: Conference Room Document

FUF: Follow up formula IAFNS: Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition INCA: Infant Nutrition Council of America

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