SPIFAN Stakeholder Panel (March 15, 2017)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)

Scott Coates, Ph.D. AOAC INTERNATIONAL (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.