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

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

2016-12-07 11:50:53

Yumin Chen

PepsiCo

12-07-2016

Cover environmental and sanitation samples (Proposed for group discussion)

i. Because quantatitive ELISA will be used to calibrate the analyte used to validate

qualitative method (Agreed by several group members).

ii. If a food contains food allergen, the label should describe that. The most valuable

use of an allergen method is acutally to assess allergen footprint in order to clear a

production line to run a second non-allergen containing product.

Create a category of alcohol containing beverage so that wine and eggnog can both go

under

Definition – Specificity: need to connected to the binding technology that implied by the

ELISA definition.

Spiking – According to the AOAC appendix M, the best spiking sample is an incurred

sample.