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STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND
ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)
Scott Coates,
AOAC INTERNATIONAL
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
Scott Coates is a 21-year AOAC veteran now serving as the AOAC Chief Scientific
Officer. Dr. Coates joined AOAC in 1992 as a manager for the AOAC Research
Institute, and ran the
Performance Method Tested
program until 2009 when he
was promoted to become AOAC's Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). As CSO, Coates is
involved in every major AOAC project, ranging from biological threat agent detection,
food/environmental microbiology, and nutritional chemistry of infant formula. Coates was the lead
author of the
Guideline for Standard Methods Performance Requirements
in the 19th edition of the
Official Methods of Analysis.
Coates is a University of Maryland alumni has a B.S. in microbiology and a
M.S. in Biotechnology Management.