AOAC’s Stakeholder Program on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPIFAN) is dedicated to developing consensus-based standards and methods to make infant formula and adult nutritionals safer for babies and adults to consume.
SPIFAN develops consensus-based standards and methods to address issues that most impact the industry that supplies formulas for infants and special medical purposes (adult nutritionals). SPIFAN standards and methods provide critical guideposts to regulators and industry.
Scope and Objectives
- Publishing Standard Method Performance Requirements (SMPRs) and AOAC Official Methods of Analysis
- Facilitating review and evaluation of SPIFAN methods by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Dairy Federation (IDF), and AOAC review of ISO/IDF methods to ensure harmonization
- Facilitating joint submission, review, and evaluation of AOAC SPIFAN methods for consideration as Codex Type II methods (i.e., international reference methods)
- Creating new standards for novel technologies and ingredients
AOAC INTERNATIONAL partners with the ISDI (International Special Dietary Foods Industries) on SPIFAN activities.
Get Involved
SPIFAN is powered by the experts on the stakeholder panel and the submitters of methods related to infant formula and adult nutritionals.
For scientists, participating in SPIFAN provides the opportunity to be on the front lines of methods development and standardization in the nutritionals space and to interact with like-minded colleagues at various stages of their careers.
For companies, supporting SPIFAN makes a direct contribution to product safety and simultaneously demonstrates corporate commitment to the advancement of method science.
- Join a working group or serve on an Expert Review Panel (open calls for volunteers)
- Submit a method (open calls for methods)
- Provide method feedback (open calls for comments)
