Potential users are many and varied, ranging through medical
and environmental science and health labs, regulatory bodies,
water companies, consultant and public analysts and environmental
sections within industrial organisations.
EMS2010 5th National Meeting on Environmental Mass Spectrometry
The EMS2010 meeting is being arranged for one day, March 24, 2010, and the theme for the meeting is current trends in the Applications of Mass Spectrometry to Environmental and Food Matrix Analysis. The meeting is being jointly convened by the Environmental Mass spectrometry and Food & Nutrition Special Interest Groups of the BMSS and will form part of a conference week of three meetings, March 22 - 26, 2010, being organised at the University of Chester by Prof. Chris Smith, covering also Nanotechnology & Food, and, Food Science & Technology.
Plenary Lecture
Dr Enrico Davoli of the Capo Laboratorio Spettrometria di Massa Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, has accepted an invitation to present the plenary lecture entitled ‘A Review of Advanced MS Techniques in environmental studies: advantages and current limitations’.
Keynote presentations
Food and Nutrition
Dr Bert Poepping, Eurofins UK, ‘Allergen detection, quantitation and confirmation in Nuts, Cereals, Milk etc by LC/MS/MS’.
Environmental
David Wood, Laboratory Director, Scientific Analysis Laboratories Ltd., Manchester, 'MS techniques in environmental analysis- a view from a commercial analytical laboratory'
Abstracts (< 50 Kbyte, single A4 page, without images or tables) on applications of Environmental Mass Spectrometry can be submitted for inclusion in the www.analyticalmethodologycentre.co.uk Forum page (as an individual presenter forum) to PeterBaugh682@hotmail.com or peter@analyticalmethodology.co.uk. Exhibitor logos and information about commercial products can similarly be included in the forum. Short presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint or Acrobat format (≤ 5 MByte) are required for uploading to the document page for viewing and downloading in the EMS2010 repository file or EMSexhibition for commercial displays.
Please note that if you wish to view the forum you will need to apply for a user name and password to log on.
Registration for the website will allow access to the fora for presentation titles and abstracts but from the deadline, March 01, 2010, and until after the date of the meeting access will be restricted to bona fide delegates who have paid registration fees.
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