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Background and positioning
of Working Group
Working Group reporting to the AOAC International Stakeholder
Panel on Alternative Methodologies (ISPAM) to improve food
allergen methods.
WG tasked specifically to develop recommendations for the
establishment of Standard Method Performance Requirements
(SMPR) for food allergen methodologies
WG creation follows a priority setting exercise for work on Food
Allergens SMPR –
Thought Leader Advisory Meeting
on June 15
th
at AOAC HQ.
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Background on Food Allergens Methods
Most Methods are Antibody based methods:
•
ELISA tend to dominate existing methodologies being
applied for food control purposes
•
Other detection approaches are possible e.g. SPR-based
biosensors
Some methods are DNA/RNA based methods – used
generally as complementary methods (particularly in
jurisdictions where the regulations are based on protein
requirements)
Methods based on Mass-Spectrometry detection (with
the associated separation technique) are confirmatory
approaches.
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