Food Authenticity Program Meeting Book (March 13, 2019)

AOAC INTERNATIONAL FOOD AUTHENTICITY / FRAUD PROGRAM Joe Boison, Ph.D.

Independent Consultant Working Group Co-Chair

Dr. Boison is a retired Senior Research Scientist with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and holds 2 Adjunct Professor Faculty positions (one in the Chemistry Department and the other in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences) at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2003, he was appointed a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (FWIF), and was appointed to serve as a subject matter expert for the Canadian Government Delegation to the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CCRVDF). He was awarded the CFIA President’s National Award for Leadership Excellence in 2010 and in 2012 he was appointed a Fellow of the AOACI. Dr. Boison’s involvement with the AOAC dates back to 1991 when he first accepted an appointment as an Expert Reviewer for Rapid Test Kits to work with Scott Coates at the inception of AOAC Research Institute. He has since held positions of General Referee/Process Expert, Topic Advisor, Study Director, Expert Reviewer, Scientific Editor and member of the AOAC RI Board of Directors. He was appointed to the Editorial Board, AOAC International in 2011, and received the 2011 AOAC Process Expert General Referee Award. In 2015, he was awarded AOAC International’s highest scientific award, the Harvey W. Wiley Award for Lifetime Scientific Achievement. In 2007, Dr. Boison was appointed a member of the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), and a Section Editor for Veterinary Drug Residues for the Journal of AOAC International. After accepting an appointment as an Expert Reviewer for veterinary drugs in 2007, Boison served on several Expert Review and Stakeholder Panels (ERPs) and provided scientific leadership directing/chairing the ERP meetings that resulted in the recommendation to the OMB of 2 methods for Official Method Final Action Status: OMA-2011.23 “Determination and Confirmation of Parent and Total Ractopamine in Bovine, Swine, and Turkey Tissues by Liquid Chromatography with tandem mass Spectrometry: Multi-laboratory Study ” and OMA 2011.24 “Determination and Confirmation of Narasin and Monensin in Chicken, Swine and Bovine Tissues by LC-MS/MS: Multi- Laboratory Study ”, and 3 methods for Official Method First Action Status: NIC-33, “Determination of Nicarbazin in Chicken Tissues by LC with Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,” OMA 2011.22 “Ractopamine in Swine, Bovine, and Turkey Tissues by HPLC with Fluorescence Detection, and OMA 2012.25 “Three Triphenylamine Dye Residues and their Metabolites in Aquaculture Products” These were the first group of veterinary drug residue methods to receive royal accent from the OMB since the implementation of the Alternative pathway for method approval process from Official First Action Method Status to Final Action Method Status. Recently, he has chaired AOAC International initiatives that deal with gluten, compound 1080 in infant formula and pesticide residues. Dr. Boison currently heads an Independent Analytical Consultancy Initiative.