AOAC ISPAM Food Allergen WG Meeting Book (12-15-16)

AOAC ISPAM "Food Allergen" Working Group Questions/Comments Form

Submission Date

2016-12-07 11:50:53

First & Last Name

Yumin Chen

Organization

PepsiCo

E-mail Address

Yumin.Chen@pepsico.com

Date Submitted

12-07-2016

Question/Comment-1

Cover environmental and sanitation samples (Proposed for group discussion)

i. Because quantatitive ELISA will be used to calibrate the analyte used to validate qualitative method (Agreed by several group members). ii. If a food contains food allergen, the label should describe that. The most valuable use of an allergen method is acutally to assess allergen footprint in order to clear a production line to run a second non-allergen containing product.

Question/Comment-2

Create a category of alcohol containing beverage so that wine and eggnog can both go under

Question/Comment-3

Definition – Specificity: need to connected to the binding technology that implied by the ELISA definition.

Question/Comment-4

Spiking – According to the AOAC appendix M, the best spiking sample is an incurred sample.