All Current & Forthcoming Workshops

2nd - 3rd July 2009

Screening and confirmatory methods for the detection of heavy metals in food
Location: Universita Degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Local Host: Universita Degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (URTV)
Email: [email protected]    Website: www.workshop.wp9.biocop2009.uniroma.it

BioCop are pleased to announce that a workshop to demonstrate BioCop methods to the network of European heavy metal testing laboratories on ''Screening and confirmatory methods for the detection of heavy metals in food'' will take place at the Universita Degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (URTV) on the 2nd - 3rd July 2009. It is our pleasure to invite all interested stakeholders to attend this event.

The workshop will include a demonstration and training activity on the detection of lead in food (milk) using SPE and the Palmsens instrument. Speakers from the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) and the Institute of Food Nutrition (INRAN) will also be present discussing the environmental and nutritional aspects of heavy metals.

Oral presentations are welcome on the screening procedures and/or confirmatory methods for the detection of heavy metals. For info about abstract submission for poster or oral presentation please go to the info page.

URTV will work in collaboration with EU Community Reference Laboratory for Heavy Metals (ISS, Rome)

Organising Committee: Prof. Giuseppe Palleschi, Dr. Felice Caprio, Dr. Francesco Ricci

For those of you from research institutions, public and private laboratories performing food analysis, SMEs and food industries, attendance at this event is strongly recommended.

For further Information please visit www.workshop.wp9.biocop2009.uniroma.it

We look forward to seeing you in Italy


October 2009

Biomarker Analysis for the Detection of illegal Anabolic Agents
Location: TBC
Local Host: BioCop and National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Email: [email protected]    Website: www.biocop.org

In Year 5 of the BioCop Project (2009), The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will hold a workshop for all European national reference laboratories on the subject of biomarker analysis for the detection of illegal anabolic agents.


2009

BioCop Consumer Workshop
Location: TBC
Local Host: The BioCop Project
Email: [email protected]    Website: www.biocop.org

The Consumer Workshops will provide a forum for discussion of the projects' developments and their application between scientists - seeking to advance these novel techniques, and consumers' organisation representatives - seeking to ensure better food safety for consumers. Consumers' need for reassurance about food safety will be central - their concerns about, for example, multiple residues and contaminants in foods, the cocktail effects of food contaminants and residues, are being taken seriously and addressed by developments in this project.

Consumers' needs and views should be acknowledged and assimilated into the European research agenda; the consumer workshop will initiate this dialogue, which will be ongoing throughout the project.