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- Title
Reference Materials: Critical Importance to the Infant Formula Industry.
- Authors
WARGO, WAYNE F.
- Abstract
Infant formula is one of the most regulated foods in the world. It has advanced in complexity over the years as a result of numerous research innovations. To ensure product safety and quality, analytical technologies have also had to advance to keep pace. Given the rigorous performance demands expected of these methods and the ever-growing array of complex matrixes, there is the potential for gaps to exist in current Official Methods SM and other recognized international methods for infant formula and adult nutritionals. Food safety concerns, particularly for infants, drive the need for extensive testing by manufacturers and regulators. The net effect is the potential for an increase in time- and resource-consuming regulatory disputes. In an effort to mitigate such costly activities, AOAC INTERNATIONAL, under the direction of the Infant Formula Council of America—a trade association of manufacturers and marketers of formulated nutritional products—agreed to establish voluntary consensus Standard Method Performance Requirements, and, ultimately, to identify and publish globally recognized, fit-for-purpose standard methods. To accomplish this task, nutritional reference materials (RMs), representing all major commercially available nutritional formulations, were (and continue to be) a critical necessity. In this paper, various types of RMs will be defined, followed by review and discussion of their importance to the infant formula industry.
- Subjects
INFANT formula industry; BABY foods industry; INFANT formula manufacturing; RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Journal of AOAC International, 2017, Vol 100, Issue 5, p1376
- ISSN
1060-3271
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5740/jaoacint.17-0231