Attend our 30th Annual Meeting
Preparing for Emerging Threats:
Rapid Tests, Planning for Emergencies, and the
Environmental Connection with Human Health
World Class Speakers, Engaging Seminars and Posters
Laboratory Workshops, Validation Training, Student Participation
As co-chairs of our section we invite Microbiologists, Chemists, Toxicologists, Biochemists, Molecular Biologists, Students and others to join us in beautiful Puget Sound for training events, cutting-edge lectures – Carlos Abeyta, James Hungerford
In the 21st century we have an impressive assortment of laboratory methods and new technologies available to us and opportunities to provide improved protection of human health. Information exchange is a critical factor in these efforts, including the need for collaborations but also communications and training to provide a better understanding of method capabilities, understanding of how environmental problems impact human health, and how to plan for emergencies.
Last year’s meeting Pacific NW AOAC Meeting broke new ground in the environmental impact and food safety areas, with keynote lectures on environmental contamination of produce, toxicity due to opportunistic plants following drought, phage-based detection of bacterial pathogens, field-flow fractionation methods for detecting particles in the environment and in human samples, contamination of aircraft cabin air by organophosphates, food supply globalization, and the authentication and analysis of dietary supplements.
Our June 2010 meeting will provide more training opportunities than ever before, and the meeting will also include inspiring lectures on leadership in human health protection, the role of green chemistry in everyday products and in research, preparing for emergencies, and the environmental – human health connection. Training in methods validation will be offered and this year we are also offering on-site laboratory training on analytical methodologies in both chemistry and microbiology. This year we are lucky to have a new and impressive science facility available and will be relocating nearly all of our events to this one convenient and state-of-the-art area of the UPS campus.