Analytical Methodology Centre

EMSSIG (The BMSS) with ACDLabs, ALMSCO Int. and several other companies in conjunction with Prof. Chris Smith (MMU) have now arranged the EMSSIGWorkshop in 2012 which was unfortunately postponed in 2011.  The meeting will be held at the Manchester Food Research Centre, MMU on July 04, 2012.

There has been support for a re-convening of the meeting and Eric De Wulf (Gent) has expressed an opinion with some very appropriate remarks about the topic "Improving the productivity in environmental & food screening using LC-MS and GC-MS"   Many European laboratories are struggling with the problem to analyse the WFD priority substances in the whole water bodies. European Authorities are working on this issue including JRC/NORMAN. It has been decided to start an information exchange platform on European level within the WFD implementation strategy as part of the WG E/Chemical Monitoring activities.  The first stage is  a questionnaire about screening   analytical_screening_techniques_for_wfd___questionnaire_20_7_2011 . Eric de Wulf is also willing to give a presentation on "Monitoring work under WFD and the instrumentation used". 

A provisional programme for the workshop emssigworkshopprogramme23012012 is available for viewing and downloading.  It is hoped that the response in 2012 will be sufficient to enable the Workshop to be held.