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Acknowledgments 1 We would like to specially thank Ger Ryan at Wyeth Nutritionals (Askeaton, Ireland) and 2 Deborah Neukomm at Nestlé Health Science (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) for their help in 3 providing the samples to complete the SPIFAN kit, without which the study would not have come 4 to life. We also are very grateful to Esther Campos Giménez at Nestlé Research (Lausanne, 5 Switzerland) and Robert Rankin at Infant Nutrition Council of America (Washington DC, USA) 6 for their valuable assistance and guidance through the whole process. We also wish to thank Daria 7 Pieniak and Alastair Gunnee at Nestlé Quality Assurance Center (York, UK) and Jennifer Larkin 8 and Barry McCleary at Megazyme (Bray, Ireland) for all their help in resolving the issue with the 9 sucrase enzyme, and to the team at Megazyme for supplying a suitable batch of sucrase to all the 10 MLT participants. We also have a special thank you for Kao Zoua Thao and Laura De Paola at 11 Covance Laboratories (Madison, WI, USA) who effectively organised the dispatch of the samples 12 to the participating laboratories. We greatly thank the following participants and their associates 13 for their valuable contributions to the study: 14 Isabelle Malaviole and Mathieu Delcamp, Laboratoire Aquanal (Pessac, France) 15 Wilco Duvivier, Cosun R&D (Dinteloord, The Netherlands) 16 Monique Steegmans, Dirk Joye and Olivier Hubert, CRDS-Analytics Südzucker Group (Tienen, 17 Belgium) 18 David Ellingson and Michael Hommen, Eurofins Food Integrity and Innovation (Madison, WI, 19 USA) 20 Kai Liu and Ben Pointer, Eurofins Scientific, Inc. (Des Moines, IA, USA) 21 Bharathi Sadipiralla and Cesar Yin, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (Waitoa, New 22 Zealand) 23 Gabriele Zierfels and Markus Läubli, Metrohm AG International Headquarters (Herisau, 24 Switzerland) 25 Marco Meschiari and Massimo Veronesi, Neotron S.p.A. (Modena, Italy) 26

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