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September 27–30, 2015
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Westin Bonaventure Hotel
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Los Angeles, California
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
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Ana Gago-Martinez,
University of Vigo and EURLMB
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James Hungerford,
U.S. FDA
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Pearse McCarron,
National Research Council Canada
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Carlos Ruiz,
ANFACO, CECOPESCA
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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).
CHAIR:
Jim Bradford,
AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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
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Paul Zomer,
RIKILT - Institute Of Food Safety
Analyte Identification Criteria for Mass Spec Based
Analytical Methods
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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
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Joerg Stroka,
European Commission - JRC - IRMM
A Novel Validation Concept Meeting the Need to Test
against a Single Level