Great success for the workshop ‘NIR Platform’

27 March 2013

Within the framework of the European project QSAFFE, a workshop entitled ‘NIR Platform’ took place on March 27th 2013 at the Valorisation of Agricultural Products department of the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W) in Gembloux, Belgium. On the agenda, more than 20 presentations together with instrument demonstrations and laboratory visits were organized. This workshop allowed the participants to get information about the latest technology concerning near infrared (NIR) presented by leading industry manufacturers as well as the most recent applications by scientific research centers, universities and private companies. In total the workshop received more than 75 persons from 13 different European countries.

AM

8:45	Welcome and Introduction  P. DARDENNE (CRA-W)
9:00	From benchtop to process NIR control  A. KOK (BRUKER)
9:15	NIR applications in the food industry  O. ABBAS (CRA-W)
9:30	Using NIR Data: The difficulties and opportunities associated with large volumes of data that can be generated by NIR  R. GARCIA & S. FLANAGAN (AUNIR)
9:45	How IR Imaging contributes to the optimization of automatic quality control in the food industry H. COPIN (XENICS)
10:00	NIR applications for emerging vegetal contaminants J.A. FERNANDEZ (CRA-W)
10:15	FOSS NIR based in-line solutions for the food industry S. D’ESPALLIER(FOSS)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break – Demonstration & lab visits
11:00	Near Infrared Spectroscopy as tool for quality control in food and feed business: some technical aspects and applications  C. LUHR (BUCHI)
11:15	Use of NIRS for the determination of quality and nutritional parameters of apple  A. PISSARD (CRA-W)
11:30	Making spectral imaging possible M. MARMION (SPECIM)
11:45	Presentation of AgriQuant a combination of FTNIR and strong sampling solutions  A. LARSEN (Q-INTERLINE)
12:00-13:30	DEMONSTRATION & LAB VISITS / LUNCH

PM

13:30	Summary of Inatech competences presentation in NIR Quality control at line and on-line  F. HANSE (INATECH)
13:45	Automated sampling solution for bench top NIR spectrometer G.LE JONCOUR (AMS FRANCE/UNITY SCIENTIFIC)
14:00	Determination of Processed Animal Proteins in Animal Feed – Collaborative Study A. BOIX (JRC)
14:15	Visual Chemometrics – Interactive Software for Hyperspectral Image Exploration and Analysis  J. BURGER (BURGERMETRICS)
14:30	NIR applications in plant breeding PH. VERMEULEN (CRA-W)
14:45-15:15	Coffee break – Demonstration & lab visits
15:15	Requasud : a network analysis and advices for the Walloon agriculture sector O. MINET (CRA-W)
15:30	Lab and in-line NIR analysis in the feed and food industries S. TORDENMALM (PERTEN INSTRUMENTS AB)
15.45	Use of the NIR at the milking parlour F. DEHARENG & N. NGUYEN (CRA-W)
16:00	Melamine detection by NIR: a chemometric challenge  P. DARDENNE (CRA-W)
16:15-18:00	DEMONSTRATION & LAB VISITS  CLOSURE DRINK