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Foodstuffs provide nutirition for people and animals. They contain nutrients that supply the necessary energy and enable functions essential to life. Numerous laws and regulations exists to guarantee the safety and quality of foodstuffs. Analytics has become an indispenable tool for monitoring food, commodities and stimulants. The demands on analytics are constantly increasing.

Shimadzu and Merck would like to invite you again to several one day user seminars that will introduce a wide range of new applications, as well as tips and tricks for implementing them in food laboratories. The training Seminar is aimed at all analysts of foodstuffs - from contract laboratories to food producers' on-site laboratories. In addition to a comprehensive lecture programme, there will be plenty of time for analysts converse and network.

Agenda

9:00
Registration and Coffee – Start of the Seminar at 09:30 h
9.30
Welcome and short Presentation of Shimadzu and Merck
9.50
Dioxin, PFAS and hormones in food and food packaging. 
Peter Behnisch, Director at BioDetection Systems - Amsterdam
10.15 Sample preparation for fatty & complex food matrices, new tools for SPE & QuEChERS providing higher efficiency and more reliable results
Klaus Buckendahl, Merck
 
10.40
Coffee Break and Exhibition
11.10 The use and complexity of instrumental techniques as a tool for vegetable edible oils and fats
René Blok, Analytical Development & Quality Control Manager Oils at Bunge Loders Croklaan - Wormerveer
 
11.35 Fast, efficient and cost-effective chromatographic solutions for HPLC in the food & beverage industry
Dr. Martin Finkbeiner, Merck
     
12.00 Suitable quality of purified water in the analytical lab of food and beverage industry from Merck
Pat Rashid, Merck
 
12.10
Lunch Break and Exhibition
13.10
Applications of chromatography in the development of sustainable foods
Prof. dr. ir. Hans-Gerd Janssen - Unilever Research Vlaardingen
13.35
Filtration and Particle-Monitoring in the F&B Lab & Sample Preparation for instrumental Analytics
Uwe Wagner, Merck
14.00 Coffee Break and Exhibition
14.30
Ultra-sensitive Sulphur determination in food and beverages
Dr. Rebecca Kelting - Product Specialist GC at Shimadzu Europe - Duisburg
14.55 Unique selectivity & capabilities of ionic liquid GC capillary columns, including water determination with GC
Klaus Buckendahl, Merck
 
15.20 Risk assessment of plastics: from pristine materials to waste in the environment
Albert van Oyen - Control and Research Analist Thermoplastics at Carat-lab - Bocholt
 
15.45
Final discussion, feedback and certificates of participation
16.00 End of Seminar