129th AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition Preliminary Program

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS – WEDNESDAY

Roundtable: Progress and Remaining Challenges in the Control of Marine Biotoxins Increasing knowledge in various aspects of the control of marine biotoxins, particularly the transition from mouse bioassays to chemical methods, prompts more extensive discussions of these important developments as well as challenges that still remain unresolved. In contrast to mouse bioassays, modern chemical methods have the ability for identification, quantitation or even confirmation of the presence of the various toxins, and overall performance continues to advance including higher instrument sensitiv- ity. These method improvements, in addition to improved sample pretreatment protocols are clearly important, however there are critical issues to address in improved toxicological evaluation and risk management, and even new legislation. Although concerted efforts have been made in these areas in the last few years, some unresolved issues need to be addressed. This roundtable will face these issues, in particular analytical aspects of improved methodologies, the need for method harmonization, and for improved toxicological evaluations thru oral feeding studies. Furthermore risk management issues, legislation, and also the impact of these issues on the bivalve fishery industry will be discussed. CO-CHAIR: Ana Gago-Martinez, University of Vigo and EURLMB CO-CHAIR: James Hungerford, U.S. FDA • Ana Gago-Martinez, University of Vigo and EURLMB • James Hungerford, U.S. FDA • Pearse McCarron, National Research Council Canada • Carlos Ruiz, ANFACO, CECOPESCA • Joerg Stroka, European Commission - JRC – IRMM AOAC INTERNATIONAL Stakeholder Panels Update: ISPAM, SPADA, SPDS, SPIFAN, and SPSFAM AOAC INTERNATIONAL Stakeholder Panels are creat- ing voluntary based consensus based standards meeting industry needs. Attend this session to get an update on each of the stakeholder panels: International Stakeholder Panel on Alternative Methodology (ISPAM), Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays (SPADA), Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements (SPDS), Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPFIAN), and the Stakeholder Panel on Strategic Food Analytical Methods (SPSFAM).

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Analytical Challenges and Reporting Frame- work of Results in Perspective of Sound Method Performance Requirements Analytical Methods progressed over time with the need to either obtaining rapid results at early stage of production and/or the need to check commodities for a larger array of substances while recognizing scientific progress address- ing these needs. As a result classical single analyte/matrix tend to be displaced with those of a wider scope that serve more than only one purpose such as compliance checking against a limit. Additional purposes can be the use for expo- sure assessments, which require extended working ranges or multianalyte methods allowing to reduce the analytical effort. Therefore “swiss army knife” like methods are aimed at, requiring often new aspects of validation. This session aims at bringing some light in the challenges analytical chemists face meeting the needs of scientific progress, performance demands as well as applicability demands. CO-CHAIR: Joerg Stroka, European Commission - JRC - IRMM CO-CHAIR: Susie Y. Dai, Office of the Texas State Chemist • Paul Zomer, RIKILT - Institute Of Food Safety Analyte Identification Criteria for Mass Spec Based Analytical Methods • Ana Gago-Martinez, University of Vigo and EURLMB Analytical Challenges in the Transition from the Mouse Bio Assay (MBA) to Chemistry for the Analysis of Marine Biotoxins • Joerg Stroka, European Commission - JRC - IRMM A Novel Validation Concept Meeting the Need to Test against a Single Level

CHAIR: Jim Bradford, AOAC INTERNATIONAL

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September 27–30, 2015 |  Westin Bonaventure Hotel |  Los Angeles, California