AOAC SPIFAN Review Team (August 2016)

Single Lab Validation of a Method for the Determination of β‐

Galactooligosaccharides in Infant Formula & Adult Nutritionals / Sean Austin (NRC,

Lausanne)

25 Jul 2016

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

After opening a call for methods to determine β‐galactooligosaccharides (GOS) in infant formula and

adult nutritionals, the AOAC received 2 method proposals. Both were considered by the expert

review panel (ERP), and both were rejected. One of the two previous methods was rejected due to a

lack of specificity for GOS. That method has since been modified to improve specificity and this

report described the single lab validation (SLV) of that method.

VALIDATION REPORT

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