AOAC GFA Stakeholder Program Meeting Book (August 28, 2022)

Food Allergen Analysis Challenges for Limits

• End users want to apply methods across all possible foods and ingredients • Lack large quantities of published data on method performance with diverse blank matrices and/or very low concentrations of allergens • Almost all quantitative methods for food allergens are commercial kits • Growing use of analytical methods to validate/verify free-from claims • Differences among end user interpretations of limits and results