Amino Acids Working Group Meeting Book (November 28, 2017)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA & ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)

Standard Method Performance Requirement Approval (SMPR) AMINO ACIDS Ping Feng, Consultant & Wesley Jacobs, Abbott Nutrition Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA March 18, 2014

Background • For the purposes of this discussion, the term “amino acids” refers (primarily) to L- D -amino acids of the general structure (except proline) :

specifically, the twenty common proteinogenic amino acids. Amino acids may be present either in their free forms or bound, as part of the protein/peptide component.