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i.e. “ppm whole milk powder” or “ppm whole fluid
milk”, not simply “ppm milk”.
The authors also indicate that three laboratories
performed the method but it is unclear how these
data from different labs are presented in the
tables/results given.
Do you recommend this
method be adopted as a
First Action and published
in the Official Methods of
Analysis of AOAC
INTERNATIONAL? Please
specify rationale.
No. Due to the issues outlined in this review,
particularly with respect to the differences in results
units and the need for clarification of the
quantification strategy for the end user, there are
still substantial revisions that are needed. In
addition, the submission contains some critical
errors (e.g. incorrect assignment of peptides to
proteins) that need to be corrected. Some of the
other aspects of how the data are processed,
analyzed, and interpreted also require further
clarification before the method could be properly
reviewed or implemented by an end user.