MoniQA conference in Krakow - Allergen session on Wednesday 9 June
The 2nd international MoniQA conference will take place in Krakow 8-10 June 2010. A special Allergen session, chaired by Bert Popping (Eurofins) is planned to be hold on Wednesday 9 June. Threshold discussion, industry risk management, multi-screenung methods and new reference material are the hot topics of the session.
MoniQA Ring trial - Casein in Cookies and Infant formula has been started
The ring trial with 20 participants has been started few weeks ago. Currently all labs are testing two matrices: cookies and Infant formula. If available further information will be found here.
MoniQA distributes to the AOAC Special Section of Food Allergen testing
MoniQA members deliver key contrubutions to Allergen threshold discussion and ELISA validation. The Special Section on Food Allergen Testing will appear in the March/April 2010 issue of J. AOAC Int. http://www.aoac.org/News/sge_food_allergen.htm
"Allergens - The analytical challenge to meet legislative requirements and consumer demands"- RAFA 2009, Prague, 4th - 6th Nov 2009
The Allergen Session on the morning of 6th Nov 2009 will be organised by Bert Popping from Eurofins, leader of the MoniQA Working group Food Allergens. The allergen working group deals with all aspects encompassing consumer, authority, industry and laboratory issues. Here, a subgroup was formed to look specifically at novel method approaches, in particular mass spectrometry, leading to consistent and accurate results. This group has made good progress on the analytical side by using newly produced reference material for the detection and quantification of milk and egg in processed foods. The progress of this working group will be presented in the session. For more information about the allergen session and RAFA 2009 see the public website
Allergen Analysis using MassSpectrometry Techniques - AOAC Europe Meeting, Paris, 23 and 24 Nov 2009.
The AOAC Europe is holding a symposium "New Trends in Food Analysis - From LC-MS/MS to UPLC". This meeting will focus on several topical issues like vitamins, drung residues, mycotoxins, pesticies and allergens. The allergen session of the symposium will be organised by Bert Popping, leader of the MoniQA Allergen working group. High level speakers, amongst others, from the MoniQA Consortium, European Commission and US-FDA will present the latest developments in this field. For more information download the first announcement.
Announcement of MS Training
The MoniQA working group food allergens offers a workshop for mass spectrometry methods for allergen detection from 30th Nov - 3rd Dec at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in Norwich. For further information click here.
Gluten Levels
Following Codex Alimentarius the EU agreed on gluten levels. According to the EC regulation 41/2009/EC, dietetic foods which contain one or more ingredients with gluten but which have been specifically processed to reduce the level of gluten to below 100 mg/kg shall bear the label "very low gluten" and the same products with a gluten level below 20 mg/kg may bear the label "gluten-free".
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