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European Union Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Food and Feed (EURL GMFF)

Second international workshop on harmonisation of GMO detection and analysis

This meeting has been organised by the Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument of the European Commission in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Zagreb, Croatia
29 - 30 September 2010

AGENDA AND LINK TO PRESENTATIONS

Day I : Wednesday 29 September 2010

Chair: Guy Van den Eede

Time Title
10:00 Registration and welcome to the participants
10:30 Introduction to TAIEX
EXPERT (TBC)
11:00 Scope of the Workshop
Mr. Guy Van den Eede
European Commission-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
11:30 Tour de Table on salient developments with respect to GMO analysis
All participants
12:45

Lunch

14:00 GMO testing requirements and approaches world-wide
Mr. Guy Van den Eede
European Commission-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
14:45 Considerations on the development of accurate methods, suitable for the screening, identification and quantification of GMOs
Mr. Marc De Loose
Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO)
BELGIUM
15:30

Coffee break

16:00 From analytical methods for labelling towards analytical methods for control: Knowledge-technology-based approaches
Mr. Marc De Loose
Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO)
BELGIUM
16:45 From analytical methods for labelling towards analytical methods for control: Transfer of validated methods into the laboratory and rationalisation/optimisation of their field of application
Ms. Jana Zel
National Institute of Biology
SLOVENIA
17:30 General Discussion
All participants
End of the session

Day II : 30 September 2010

Chair: Guy Van den Eede

Time Title
9:00 From analytical methods for labelling towards analytical methods for control: Multi-target detection approaches
Mrs. Maddalena Querci
European Commission-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
9:45 From analytical methods for labelling towards analytical methods for control: Matrix based approaches, decision-support systems and reference methods
Mr. Mark Van den Bulcke
European Commission-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 From analytical methods for labelling towards analytical methods for control: A practical approach to screen for authorised and non-authorised GMOs
Mr. Dr. Lutz Grohmann
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
GERMANY
11:45 Proficiency testing
Mr. Mark Van den Bulcke
European Commission-Joint Research Centre
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
12:15 Towards the development of a GMO detection toolbox
All participants
13:30 End of the workshop