Invitation to June meetings in Seattle and Tacoma - Shellfish Mon itoring Stakeholders and Potential Toxin Task Force Members

From: Hungerford, James M (JHUNGERF@ORA.FDA.GOV)
Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 14:17:57 PDT

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    Dear State, Federal Regulators, Shellfish Industry and Associations, and
    ISSC Members:

    Some of you already know about this Stakeholders Meeting Wednesday June 22
    at the Shoreline Lab of DOH, Washington State facility. The purpose of the
    meeting, which is followed the next day at Univ. Puget Sound in Tacoma by
    marine toxin presentations and workshop at the meeting of the Pacific NW
    Section of AOAC Int., is to inform stakeholders about the methodology
    validation efforts of the Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force of AOAC.
    Although originally planned to reach out to our Pacific Region stakeholders,
    all interested stakeholders are welcome to attend. Those of you who attended
    the Pac Rim ISSC meeting may have heard of our group and validation
    activities from Greg Langloise. Our website is
    http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/task_force.htm
    <http://www.aoac.org/marine_toxins/task_force.htm>

    At our Wed afternoon meeting we will tell you about the activities of the
    Task Force. This will include a progress report, an overview of what
    occurred at our Spain meeting this April, what is in planning including our
    Orlando meetings this Sept. We will also be happy to answer your questions.
    In this meeting we will also have our three special guests from among the
    voting section of our Task Force (Univ. Vigo, and from the mussel producers
    of Galicia, Spain, and from the University of Santiago, Chile and also from
    NOAA, Seattle). They will also give some excellent lectures on marine toxins
    (and stakeholder talk by Spanish shellfish industry on toxin impact) the
    following day at the AOAC meeting. And I encourage you to attend this
    Pacific NW Section Meeting of AOAC on Thur June 23 and Friday June 24.
    http://www.aoacpacnw.com/ <http://www.aoacpacnw.com/>

    We really look forward to welcoming any and all participants who are
    interested. Please RSVP to Nancy Hill Email: dearnancy@comcast.net
    <mailto:dearnancy@comcast.net>
    Thanks for your interest.
    Best Regards,
    Jim

    James Hungerford, Ph.D.
    Chair of AOAC Task Force and GR, Marine and Freshwater Toxins,

    Research Chemist
    FDA Seafood Products Research Center
    22201 23rd Dr SE
    Bothell, WA 98021
    USA
    Phone 425-483-4894
    FAX 425-483-4996

    James.Hungerford@fda.gov

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