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Univ. of Calif., Sea Grant Extension Program
A new task force chaired by Dr. James Hungerford (US Food and Drug
Administration, Seafood Products Research Center, Bothell, WA USA) and
under the auspices of the AOAC International will work on prioritizing,
funding, and accelerating validation studies of methods for marine and
freshwater toxins.
The task force has 63 members and is still expanding. The task force
consits of marine and freshwater toxin experts and also government and
industry stakeholders from many countries that are major seafood
producers. Jim Hungerford is chairing this group which will soon have its
second Task Force meeting (and subgroups) at the annual AOAC meeting in
St. Louis, Missouri next week.
Future meetings will be held in Baiona, Spain, April 2005 (joint Toxin
Symposium), Seattle, June 2005 (AOAC NW Regional Meeting), Mobile Bay,
Alabama (ISSC annual national meeting) August 2005, and Hawaii (Pacifichem
2005).
At this time Jim and the task force want to add more stakeholders;
particularly government and industry stakeholders from Eastern and Far
Eastern countries.
The new Task Force website can be found at:
http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/task_force.htm, and the current Task
Force membership is listed there at:
http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/roster.htm.
For further information about the Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force,
contact:
James M. Hungerford, Ph.D.
Research Chemist
Seafood Products Research Center
PRL/NW
FDA
22201 23rd Dr SE
Bothell, WA 98021
Tel: 425-483-4894
Fax: 425-483-4996
E-mail: James.Hungerford@fda.gov
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