AOAC SPIFAN Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book (March 12, 2020)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)

Harvey E. Indyk, Ph.D., Fonterra Cooperative Inositol – Co-Chair

Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd, New Zealand; Food Nutrition Committee General Referee for Non-Vitamin Micronutrients; Past Study Director for 3 methods (taurine, choline, vitamin K); Author of approximately 70 papers on

analytical methodology related to foods; Associate Referee of the Year in 1997; AOAC International Fellow 2001; Peer-reviewer for the Journal of AOAC International and other journals; Guest editor for Special Edition of Journal of AOAC International on biosensors (2006); Technical reviewer for AOAC RI on multiple vitamin methods; served on Membership and International Advisory Committees and OMA Peer Review Task Force; Recipient of 2006 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Award for Industrial and Applied Chemistry. Born: 1949, London, UK. Resident: New Zealand since 1978. Other interests: Kayaking, judo, music, guitar.

Karen Schimpf, Ph.D., Abbott Nutrition Inositol – Co-Chair

Karen graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. She began working at Ross Laboratories as a technician in

the water-soluble vitamin laboratory. During her career at Ross, she has developed several methods for the quantitation of oil and water soluble vitamins in infant and medical nutritional products and biological samples using normal and reverse phase, ion exchange, and size exclusion high performance liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet/visible, fluorescence, and electrochemical detection.