GRAS Assessments

Ingredients

• Steviol glycosides, Luo Han Guo extracts, and other non-nutritive sweeteners

• Oligosaccharides

• Amino acids

• Fermentation-derived ingredients

• Botanicals and botanical extracts

• Other self-determined GRAS ingredients

GRAS Notices (as a consultant for GRAS Associates, LLC)

• GRN 656 for Enzyme-Modified Steviol Glycosides

• GRN 667 for Rebaudioside M

• GRN 715 for Rebaudioside D

• GRN 729 for Galacto-Oligosaccharides

• GRN 733 for Purified Steviol Glycosides

• GRN 734 for Ergothioneine

• GRN 735 for 2’-Fucosyllactose

• GRN 790 for Steviol Glycosides

• GRN 823 for Rebaudioside E

• GRN 838 for Purified Steviol Glycosides

• GRN 839 for Purified Steviol Glycosides

• GRN 846 for Rebaudioside M

• GRN 858 for Glucosylated Steviol Glycosides

Publications

• Katrina Emmel, Evelyn Cadman, and Cheryl Dicks. “NDIs for dietary supplements: How to proceed in 2020.” Nutritional Outlook, February 24, 2020.

• Katrina Emmel, Evelyn Cadman, and Cheryl Dicks. “Which GMPs for the cannabis industry? Pharmaceutical, food, or dietary supplement?” Nutritional Outlook, August 26, 2019.

• Katrina Emmel, Evelyn Cadman, and Cheryl Dicks. “Best practices for CBD testing.” Nutritional Outlook, August 12, 2019.

• Katrina Emmel, Evelyn Cadman, and Cheryl Dicks. “What is CBD’s regulatory status, and how should companies proceed with caution?” Nutritional Outlook, August 5, 2019.

• Michael Lelah and Katrina Emmel. “The Science of Enzyme-Treated Stevia.” Vitamin Retailer, May 2011.

• A.B. Champagne; K.V. Emmel. “Rapid Screening Test for Adulteration in Raw Materials of Dietary Supplements,” Vibrational Spectroscopy (2010).

• Oral Presentation, Katrina Emmel and Andrea Champagne, PerkinElmer Open House, April 19, 2012
  “Keeping it Clean: FTIR as a Screening Tool for Adulteration in Raw Materials of Dietary Supplements”

• Oral Presentation, Chicago IFT Suppliers’ Night 2011 Innovation NOW! Forum, 2011
  “Enzyme-treated Stevia Extract – A Better Way to Beat the Bitterness

• Poster Presentation, 10th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, Mississippi, 2011
  Champagne, AC; Emmel, KV; Lelah, MD
  “Rapid Screening Test for Adulteration of Herbal Supplements”

• Poster Presentation, AOAC Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
  Ted Waszkuc, Susan Berkman, Katrina Emmel, Sandra Jordan and Felicia Mohammed
  “High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) Characterization of the Enzymatic Glycosylation of Stevia rebaudiana: A Comparison of Enzyme Treated and Non-Enzyme Treated Stevia Extracts”

• Poster Presentation, ASMS Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
  Katrina Emmel, Ted Waszkuc, Susan Kraemer-Berkman, Andre Szczesniewski and Sue D’Antonio “High-Resolution TOF LC/MS Characterization of the Enzymatic Glycosylation of Stevia rebaudiana: A Comparison of Natural and Enzyme-Treated Stevia Extracts”

• Poster Presentation, ACS Meeting, Lincolnshire, IL 2009
  Ted Waszkuc, Susan Berkman, Katrina Emmel and Felicia Mohammed
  “High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Characterization of the Enzymatic Glycosylation of Stevia rebaudiana: A Comparison of Enzyme Treated and Non-Enzyme Treated Stevia Extracts”

• Poster Presentation, ASMS Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006
  Katrina Vaitkunas, Victor Ryzhov, Andrea Weinecke, and Robert Sobel
  “Characterization of Reaction Products and Kinetics of Maillard Reactions of Dark Malts with Amino Acids by Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry”

• Poster Presentation, ASMS Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2005
  Katrina Vaitkunas and Victor Ryzhov
  “Using Ion-Molecule Reactions to Probe the Structure of Amino Acid-Alkali Metal Ion Complexes in the Gas Phase”