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Dear Subscriber !
Welcome to the May issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter.
Arsenic in food is a topic of growing concern. Up to now, there is very little regulation on arsenic in food, but health organizations and regulators are discussing this topic since quite a moment. Beside seafood, mostly containing organic arsenic compounds of less concern, rice comes into the focus. Not only is rice a staple food for a great part of the global population, but also it contributes significantly to arsenic exposure of humans through the
diet. The reason for the arsenic contamination is related to arsenic mobilization from paddy field soils and
accumulation by the rice plant. Recent discussions on the potential health risk of arsenic in rice are
based on the content of inorganic arsenic only, because there is scarce
information with regard to the toxicology of methylated arsenic species. The current knowledge about the relationships between arsenic contamination of rice and environmental and other factors have recently been reviewed (see the news below).
As already mentioned, one reason for the ongoing discussion is the poor data situation. Analytical chemistry plays a prominent role in proving the necessary tools for robust and accurate speciation analysis. The availability of validated "standard methods" is a criterion for regulators, discussing limiting values for arsenic in food. We therefore have started to list such methods (see the news below). As always, we encourage our user community for taking part in this endeavor by reporting such methods to us, should we have missed them.
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NEWS
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EVISA is keeping you updated with what is going on in speciation analysis. In this section you will find news about the most current research results, about trends, legal issues and informations from manufacturers in the field of speciation analysis.
With all the links to further information and publications the News archive is a valuable collection of "hot topics" in speciation analysis. We continuously update even former news with new links and information so that all news are actual all the time.
Arsenic species in rice: Origin, uptake and geographical variation
The concentration levels of different arsenic species in rice heavily depends on environmental conditions and to lesser extend on genotype of the rice plant plants. This is the result of a review of research on arsenic speciation in rice for the last 10 years.
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Standard methods for tin speciation analysis
Standard methods for tin speciation analysis have been developed, validated and approved by standardization bodies for special application fields.
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Standard methods for elemental speciation analysis
Standard methods for elemental speciation analysis have been developed, validated and approved by standardization bodies for special application fields.
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Standard methods for arsenic speciation analysis
Standard methods for arsenic speciation analysis have been developed, validated and approved by standardization bodies for special application fields.
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Standard methods for chromium speciation analysis
Standard methods for chromium speciation analysis have been developed, validated and approved by standardization bodies for special application fields.
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Standard methods for mercury speciation analysis
Standard methods for speciation analysis have been developed, validated and approved by standardization bodies for special application fields.
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EVENTS
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With a list of about 50 current entries EVISA is informing you about interesting events and keeps you updated with their deadlines. By consulting our list of deadlines you won't miss the opportunity for early registration at reduced fee or the chance to submit your contribution in time.  more infos...
Please recognize the following deadlines:
METALLOMICS 2013
Date: July 8,2013 - July 11,2013
Location: Oviedo, Spain
May 15,2013 Early registration at reduced fee
10th NTES Conference: Trace & Mineral Elements in Health & Disease
Date: August 25,2013 - August 29,2013
Location: Loen, Norway
May 27,2013 Early registration at reduced fee
17th Euroanalysis 2013, the European Conference on Analytical Chemistry
Date: August 25,2013 - August 29,2013
Location: Warsaw, Poland
May 15,2013 Submission of abstracts
IMA 2013: Instrumental Methods of Analysis-Modern Trends and Applications
Date: September 15,2013 - September 19,2013
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
May 20,2013 Notification of acceptance
May 31,2013 Early registration at reduced fee
FACSS 2013: 40th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
Date: September 29,2013 - October 3,2013
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 24,2013 Extended: Submission of abstracts
X ISTERH 2013: International Society of Trace Element Research in Humans
Date: November 18,2013 - November 22,2013
Location: Tokyo, Japan
May 31,2013 Submission of abstracts
Please do not hesitate to inform us in case that your conference related to speciation analysis is missing in our Agenda.
23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe).
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Glasgow, UK
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12.05.2013 - 16.05.2013
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ElCheMS 2: 2nd International Workshop on Electrochemistry/Mass Spectrometry
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Münster, Germany
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23.05.2013 - 24.05.2013
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Graduate Course on Speciation and Bioavailability
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Wageningen, The Netherlands
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03.06.2013 - 07.06.2013
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61st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
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Minneapolis, MN
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09.06.2013 - 13.06.2013
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HPLC 2013: 39th International Symposium on High-Performance-Liquid-Phase Separations and Related Techniques
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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16.06.2013 - 20.06.2013
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ICOBTE 2013: 12th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements
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Athens, Georgia, USA
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16.06.2013 - 20.06.2013
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VACANCIES
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EVISA provides information about open positions for Ph.D. students, PostDocs and permanent staff in the field of speciation. Looking to fill a vacancy or needing a new career challenge? Either way this service is FREE. Many laboratories and research facilities (from Greenland to Crete) have already found their highly educated stuff through this service by EVISA. If you would like to post an open position here, please contact us at info@speciation.net !
Doctorates
ANSES, France: Chromium speciation in water intended for human consumption, cereal and dairy products by coupling HPLC-ICP-MS and impact in terms of risk assessment on consumer health.
The ANSES, offers at the Laboratory of Food Safety of Maisons-Alfort, in the Unit " Environmental Inorganic Contaminants and Mineral " and Department "Risk Assessment related to food, "a thesis on: “Chromium speciation in water intended for human consumption, cereal and dairy products by coupling HPLC-ICPMS and impact in terms of risk assessment on consumer health.”
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DIRECTORY
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EVISA's directory of scientist is a versatile tool to facilitate contact with scientists in the field of speciation and related sciences. The directory is fully searchable for names, addresses, research topics etc. You should bookmark this directory as an always up-to-date address book. (In order to hinder SPAM robots for collecting the E-mail accounts, we hide them in a special format).
More than 275 active scientists in the field of speciation analysis already joined the directory. Join this great directory that is extensively linked to all type of other information on this site, such as homepages, conferences and literature.
If your entry is still missing in this directory, please contact us at info@speciation.net.
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LINKS
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EVISA provides an easy access to external information. Our database contains more than 2660 links to relevant information from numerous top scientific resources spread over the whole Web. The database is searchable both via full-text and categories such as elements, type of species and type of information. We are permanently updating our links section.
If your web site is missing here, please e-mail your link information to info@speciation.net.
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