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.
Co‐Chair, SPSFAM
Erik Konings
Nestle Research Center
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.
