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SCHEDULE AS OF 4/28/08

 

WEDNESDAY SEMINARS
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Soil/Environmental
Microbiology
Pesticide Residues, Alkaloids & Industrial Contaminants

Safety Issues
Marine and Freshwater Toxins and Seafood Contaminants

 

 


 

Soil and Environmental Chemistry Seminars

Yash P. Kalra, Edmonton, AB

Wednesday, June 18, 2:30 - 5:00pm

2:30 - 3:00 Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen: Automation for a Robust, Popular Method. Darvin L. Martin, Buchi Corporation, New Castle, DE
 
3:00 - 3:15 Advancing Laboratory Metals Analysis: High Throughput, Mercury and Arsenic Speciation. Marshall Pattee, Elemental Application Consulting, North Plains, OR. (to be continued after Break.......)
 
3:15 - 3:30 Break
 
3:30 - 3:45 Continued...Marshall Pattee
 
3:45 - 4:15 Microwave Extraction of Pesticides, PAH's and TPH's by the new USEPA method 3546. Bob Lockerman, CEM Corporation, Matthews, NC.
 
4:15 - 4:45 Pipetting, Ergonomics, and You. Richard Altomare, Rainin Instrument, Woburn, MA.
 
4:45 - 5:00 Future of Soil Analysis. Yash P. Kalra, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

 

Microbiology Seminars

Don H. Bark, US Food and Drug Administration, Bothell, WA

Wednesday, June 18, 2:30 - 5:00pm

2:30 - 2:55 Microbial Diversity and Quality Systems in Pharmaceutical Analysis. Sangeeta Rataul, Ph.D., FDA.
 
2:55 - 3:20 Recent Developments in Microbial Identification . Jinxin Hu, Ph.D., WA State Department of Health.
 
3:20 - 3:30 Break
 
3:30 - 4:00 Water Quality Monitoring Acitvities in King County. Eric Thompson, Environmental Laboratory Microbiology Unit Supervisor, King County
 
4:00 - 4:30 Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens and Biothreat Agents Using The Pathatrix. Marcie vanWart, Matrix MicroScience.
 
4:30-5:00 Effect of Cluster Parameters on the Analysis of Salmonella Genotype Data. Margaret Davis, DVM, Ph.D., MPH, Washington State University.
 
   
   
   

 

Chemical Analysis of Industrial Contaminants, Pesticide Residues and Alkaloids Seminar

Virginia Palomo, Oregon Department of Argiculture, Portland, OR

Wednesday, June 18, 2:30 - 5:10pm

2:30 - 3:15 GC/MS/MS analysis of Organophosphate Pesticides. Brian Nies, Product Specialist – Chromatography Varian Inc.
 
3:15 - 3:30 Break
 
3:30 - 3:50 The Pet Food Crisis: An Overview of FDA's Analytical Testing. Greg Mercer, Food and Drug Administration.
 
3:30 - 4:30 Simultaneous Screening and Confirmation of more than 200 Pesticides in Food using LC/MS/MS. Dr. Micheal Zumwalt, Agilent Technologies.
4:30 - 5:10 Ergovaline analysis: QA/QC and correlation to clinical disease. A. Morrie Craig , Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University.

 

Safety Issues Seminar

Ken Blanchard, VWR

Wednesday, June 18, 2:30 - 3:30pm

2:30 - 3:30 Safety Issues in the Laboratory
 

 

Marine and Freshwater Toxins and Seafood Contaminants Seminar

Jim Hungerford, Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest, US FDA, Bothell, WA, and Chair of AOAC Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force.

Wednesday, June 18, 2:15 - 5:20pm

2:15 - 2:20 Welcome and Task Force Description
   
2:20 - 2:35 Single-Laboratory Validation of a Liquid Chromatographic Post-Column Oxidation Method for the Analysis of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in mussels, clams, oysters and scallops. Jeffrey M. van de Riet, Ryan S. Gibbs, Faith W. Chou, Wade A. Rourke, and B. Garth Burns, CFIA, Dartmouth Laboratory, Dartmouth NS, CANADA, Krista M. Thomas and Michael A. Quilliam, NRC-Institute of Marine Biosciences, Dartmouth NS.
   
2:35 - 2:50 Metal Speciation and Drug Residue Identification in Foods - A Global Perspective on Quality and Safety Testing in Foods. William McHale, Environmental Resource Associates, Arvada, CO.
   
2:50 - 3:05 Development of Sensitive Immunoassay Formats for Algal Toxin Detection. Fernando Rubio, Abraxis, Warminster, PA.
   
3:05 - 3:20 Optimizing ELISA Testing Techniques for Cyanotoxins and Brevetoxins. Edyth Humphries, Delaware Health Dept., Dover, DE.
   
3:20 - 3:30 Break
   
3:30 - 3:45 Development of a New Lateral Flow Immunoassay using Fluorescence Labeled Optical-Read Immuno Dipstick Assay (F.L.O.R.I.D.A.) Technology for the Determination of Histamine in Fish (HistaSure) Bernhard Manz, Labor Diagnostika Nord, Germany.
   
3:45 - 4:00 Detection of Saxitoxin in Clinical Samples by Fast Saxitoxin SC. Ian Scheutz, R-Biopharm, Kalamazoo, MI.
   
4:00 - 4:15 Evaluation of LC/MS/MS and Abraxis ELISA for PSP Toxins in Shellfish - Comparison of results vs Mouse Bioassay. Emanuel Hignutt, Sara Longan, State of Alaska Environmental Health Lab, Anchorage, Alaska.
   
4:15 - 4:30 Jellett Rapid Test for DSP Maurice Laycock, JRT Limited, Chester Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada.
   
4:30 - 5:20 Task Force Discussion. Jim Hungerford, et al.

 

 

 


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