Dear Colleagues,
With great pleasure we invite you to:
Marine and Freshwater Toxins Analysis
First Joint Symposium and AOAC Task Force Meeting
Baiona, Spain April 11-14, 2005
After reading this announcement, please respond (NOT to this discussion
list) by Friday Dec 3, 2005 with a "No" or "Yes" regarding your preliminary
plans for attendance. More details will be available soon via a link from
the Task Force website below.
The symposium will address new developments and validation efforts in the
analysis of marine and freshwater toxins, and is held as a joint meeting
with the AOAC Task Force on Marine and Freshwater Toxins
http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/task_force.htm
<http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/task_force.htm>
Presentations will address special needs of the community from toxin
monitoring to new concerns in the intentional contamination of food and
water. The conference venue is the University of Vigo, in new on-site
conference facilities. The University, home to the Department of Analytical
and Food Chemistry, is located near Baiona and Vigo in the Galicia region of
northwestern Spain. In addition to being the largest European producer of
mussels, shellfish-rich Galicia is also a very beautiful and historic area.
In addition to contributed posters and oral presentations, there will be
several keynote presentations and opportunities to discuss state of the art
detection methods. The symposium will also offer unique opportunities to
presenters and attendees:
**** To learn more about the Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force and how
to contribute to this new and exciting effort to foster the development and
validation of powerful and practical methods for toxin analysis, and greater
availability of toxin standards.
**** A forum to meet with international members of the seafood industry,
their associations, and also regulatory agencies. These stakeholders, who
are the ultimate users and/or benefactors of the analytical methodology,
will also find that the symposium and Task Force can be used to express
their needs.
**** To observe or participate in the activities of focused subgroups in the
areas of saxitoxins, diarrhetic toxins, yessotoxins, domoic acid, and
others. Subgroups have proven to be the most effective means of developing
methodology needs and validation strategies. Symposium presenters and
attendees are welcome to attend.
Dates and Contacts
Deadline for Abstract submission: 13 December 2004 (Abstract guidelines
forthcoming)
Registration fees: 350 Euros (250 Euros for AOAC members or students
registering before 15 February 2005)
Submit Abstracts to: <mailto:biotoxins.meeting@uvigo.es>
biotoxins.meeting@uvigo.es
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2005
Conference: 11-14 April 2005
Contacts: Ana Gago-Martinez anagago@uvigo.es <mailto:anagago@uvigo.es> ,
James Hungerford james.hungerford@fda.gov <mailto:james.hungerford@fda.gov>
All sessions of the meeting are open to presenters and attendees including
those who are not Task Force members - Besides the knowledge, experience,
and stakeholder involvement of the present Task Force, we also welcome new
ideas from our Symposium presenters and attendees.
Please help us spread the word about this meeting to potentially interested
participants including those new to the field- For example toxicologists,
synthetic chemists interested in marine natural products, those new to
developing analytical methods for the toxins (including students) and also
interested stakeholders in industry or regulatory agencies.
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