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Dietary Supplements and Seafood Contaminants Workshops Hosted by AOAC Pacific Northwest Section  The AOAC Pacific Northwest Section is hosting in June 2009 two parallel, international level workshops: one focusing on methods for seafood and water contaminants and for melamine, and the other on dietary supplement DNA authentication and antioxidant potential. These two Seattle area workshops and the associated AOAC Pacific Northwest Section meeting in Tacoma will include participation by speakers and instructors from Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the US. The first section of AOAC, the AOAC Pacific Northwest Section will also honor its founders this year in opening award sessions, following these ground-breaking workshops. Dietary Supplements Workshop Join AOAC at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington, USA, on June 15-16, 2009 for a Dietary Supplements Workshop featuring state-of-the-art DNA authentication and LC-coulometric array analysis of antioxidant potential. The workshop will also include hands-on laboratory sessions and preparatory lectures. After the workshop please join us at the AOAC Pacific Northwest Section meeting June 17, 18, 2009 in Tacoma for lectures on hot topics in Dietary Supplements area such as New Dietary Supplement GMPs, Dietary Supplement Quality Assurance Guidance, DNA Speciation of Dietary Supplement Components, and Antioxidant Potential. Our banquet presentation also addresses botanicals and is titled In the Land of Camas and Cedar: American Indian Plant Medicines of the Pacific Northwest (Terry Maresca, MD) For more information on the workshop, including student rate, contact Gowsala Sivam at gowsalas@bastyr.edu. Seafood and Water Contaminants and Melamine Workshop Also on June 15-16, 2009, at the Washington State Department of Health Laboratory in Shoreline, Washington, USA, the AOAC Pacific Northwest Section is hosting a hands-on laboratory workshop on seafood and food and water contaminants such as histamine, antibiotics, cyanobacterial toxins, and melamine. Explore topics--such as New Enzymatic Methods for Melamine, Sensitive Enzymatic Methods for Microcystins in Water, Okadaic Acids in Shellfish, Emerging Rapid Tests for Histamine in Fish, and Antibiotics in Fish-from the perspective of field extractions to results. The workshop will feature field-friendly and small laboratory-amenable tests and extraction approaches. Several kit vendors will be on hand to showcase new approaches and kits not shown at other events. Lectures on these methods and related seafood contaminants subjects such as mercury analysis and LC-MS(MS) methods for contaminants will follow at the AOAC Pacific Northwest Section meeting June 17, 18, 2009 in Tacoma. For more information on the workshop, including student rate, contact James Hungerford (chair of the AOAC task force and general referee of Marine and Freshwater Toxins) at James_Hungerford@hotmail.com. Course Fees Course fees are $500/workshop (student rate available). Fees cover laboratory sessions, lunches, banquet, and transportation from the workshop hotel, the Harbor Inn of Edmonds, Washington, USA (accommodations not included). Laboratory space for these workshops is limited so register early. AOAC Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting Don’t miss special seminar sessions, interactive discussions, and world-class keynote presentations following the dietary supplement and seafood/melamine workshops. These will be featured at the June 17-18, 2009 at the AOAC Pacific Northwest Section’s annual meeting at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, USA. In addition to seminars expanding on these workshop topics, keynote talks on the Tacoma meeting on timely food and water safety issues will address globalization and food safety, organophosphates in airliner cabin air, contamination of produce, plant toxins in Afghan and Ethiopian wheat, and field-flow fractionation from stem cells to nanoparticles. Additional Seminars on microbiology, pesticides, melamine, microbes, and soil and environmental topics will round out the first day of presentations and will be highlighted by a scientific expo and poster presentations. Please see http://www.aoacpacnw.com. A discounted combined registration is available and also includes lunches. Credit card based registration will be online-only and available after April 22. Registration will conclude late May. Other forms for registration by check are now available at our website but please register soon as lab space is limited with spots filled on first-come basis. For more information, visit http://www.aoacpacnw.com or contact James Hungerford at James_Hungerford@hotmail.com. See also the March/April 2009 issue of Inside Laboratory Management.
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