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In WP1 the work dealt mainly with the development of screening methodologies for the detection of known and unknown adulterants or contaminants at laboratory and industrial levels. Techniques such as NIR microscopy, NIR Imaging, Raman and HPLC coupled to HR-MS proved their performance at laboratory level for detecting melamine and its structural analogues in soybean

EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) is the big Brazilian governmental enterprise dedicated to the development of national agriculture and agribusiness. In the year 2011, a group professionals from 18 units of the corporation, spread allover the country, and coordinated by Dr. Maria Lúcia Simeone from the EMBRAPA Maize and Sorghum unit, have started up a

The 5th Brazilian Workshop on Chemometrics will be held at the Hotel Arembepe Beach (Arembepe, Bahia, Brazil) from the 9th to 11th of April, 2014 The program consists of: 5 mini-courses, 12 lectures, oral and poster presentations. The mini-courses are mainly focused in undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning chemometrics basic methods. The lectures

The deadline for the Tomas Hirschfeld Award nominations has been extended until April 10th. More information: click here.

This 5 years project has been launched 1st January 2014. Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to

This award is administered by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. All nominations has to be sent to the Society for Applied Spectroscopy via email to exdir@s-a-s.org or mail to 5320 Spectrum Drive, Suite C, Frederick, MD 21703. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2014. Site: https://www.s-a-s.org/for-members/Kowalski-Award/

A collaborative project between the Department of Valorization of Agricultural Products of the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W) and the Brazilian institutions Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) and the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) has been approved for 2014-2015. The project, entitled “Emergent Spectroscopic Techniques for the Quality Control and

Nominations for the 2014 Tomas Hirschfeld Award are open until 17th March 2014. Please, click here to find more information.

A course on “HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ANALYSIS” will be held at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil) from the 17th to the 21st of March. Prof. Jose Manuel Amigo Rubio (Dept. of Food Science, Quality & Technology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen) will be the instructor. The program consists of: Basic screening of

Copenhagen School of Chemometrics – CSC 2014 is a five-week school designed to be an introduction to different key aspects of advanced data analysis in science. CSC addresses to PhD students/post-docs, associate professors, industrial partners, etc. who want to acquire or refresh basic knowledge on multivariate data analysis from different disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology,