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STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND
ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)
Darryl Sullivan, SPIFANChair
Darryl Sullivan of Covance Laboratories is the Chairperson for the
Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals.
Appointed by President Gayle Lancette in July 2010, Darryl Sullivan has
been a champion in previous AOAC stakeholder efforts on nutrients in
infant formula and adult nutritionals. He is a Fellow of AOAC and has been
an active member since 1980. He has served terms as secretary,
president‐elect, president, past president, and director of the Board of
Directors, and previously served a three‐year term as Chair of the Official Methods Board. Sullivan
also served a three‐year term as a director on the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors. He
was a founding member of the Presidential Task Force on Dietary Supplements and a member of
the Task Force on
Bacillus anthracis
, as well as the AOAC Task Force on Nutrition Labeling and the
AOAC Task Force on Sulfites. Prior to becoming Chair of the OMB, he served as a member and then
Chair of the Methods Committee on Commodity Foods and Commodity Products. Darryl Sullivan
has been involved with methods validation for over 25 years. In addition to being involved as a
Study Director for several AOAC
Official Methods
SM
.
Sullivan's expertise in methods validation is
frequently called upon by AOAC and a number of other scientific associations. Sullivan was a
founding member of the AOAC Technical Division on Reference Materials and served three terms
on the Division's Executive Board. A staunch supporter of the Association, Sullivan was quite active
in the e‐CAM and Scholar I projects at AOAC, has exhibited at the annual meetings for many years,
has presented hundreds of papers and posters at AOAC meetings, and regularly publishes his
research in the journal of the AOAC. He has also presented a significant number of papers on
behalf of AOAC at other scientific meetings
.