SPIFAN Expert Review Panel Report
October 2, 2012
Final
Method
Method Title
Comments
Reviewer(s)
Recommendation
Chol‐03
Single Laboratory Validation – Choline by UPLC‐MS/MS
Method for discussion by Working Group SPIFAN.
Submitted by Nestlé
Percentage of phosphor choline
Update in SMPR
David Woollard
Guifeng Jiang
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
Chol‐06
Method Development for Determination of Total and
Free Choline in Nutritional Products by LC‐MS/MS.
Submitted by Abbott Nutrition
Compatible with carnitine (need to see
the data)
Present as choline ion
Min Huang
Shay Phillips
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
Chol‐07
Determination of Choline In Infant Formula and Adult
Nutritionals by Ion Chromatography and Suppressed
Conductivity. Submitted by Thermo Fisher Scientific
Want to see recovery
Sensitivity below the SMPR
David Woollard
Shay Phillips
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
Method
Method Title
Comments
Reviewer(s)
Recommendation
Iod‐01
Determination of Total Iodine in Infant Formula and
Nutritional Products by Inductively Coupled
Plasma/Mass Spectrometry: Single Laboratory
Validation. Submitted by Abbott Nutrition
Min Huang
Bill Mindak
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
Method
Method Title
Comments
Reviewer(s)
Recommendation
VitE‐17
Vitamin E (tocopherols) in Food Samples by HPLC.
Submitted by Silliker Labs
Needs additional data
Adrienne McMahon
Guenther Raffler
No further action taken by ERP
VitE‐18
Simultaneous Determination of 13‐Cis and All‐Trans
Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin A Acetate, Alpha
Vitamin E Acetate, and Alpha Tocopherol by HPLC and
Column Switching. Submitted by Abbott Nutrition
Needs SRM 1849a – reference material
Scott Christiansen
Jinchuan Yang
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
VitE‐19
Simultaneous Determination of Vitamin A, E and Beta
Carotene/Mixed Carotenoids in Infant Formula by
Normal Phase HPLC. Submitted by Pfizer Nutrition
Encapsulation
Erik Konings
Kathy Sharpless/Kate
Rimmer
Recommend for First Action
Official Methods
SM
status
AOAC OMB Meeting Book
302