Dear Finfish and Shellfish Industry and Associations, and also State,
Federal Regulators:
This notice is modified now to include a new topic of interest for many
finfish product producers: histamine detection methods. We are also adding
histamine methodology as a focus of the Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task
Force and we now have a speaker on this topic at our meeting. 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 and histamine 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, now including finfish industry members 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 and there is no charge, no registration, for this meeting. 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 two special guests from among the voting section of our
Task Force speaking on marine biotoxins (Univ. Vigo, Spain, and also
industry speaker from the mussel producers of Galicia, Spain) another on
domoic acid in Washington State from NOAA, Seattle and we have now added a
speaker on histamine from Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.
They will also give some excellent lectures on marine toxins and histamine
(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> We will shortly directions to the
laboratory.
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
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