Dear colleagues, Season's greetings, merry Christmas and a very joyful, prosperous, healthy and peaceful 2017 to you and your loved ones. This email has two pieces of information: * An article on Aflatoxin proficiency testing in labs has been posted today in Broadening Horizons column of Feedipedia: http://www.feedipedia.org/content/aflatoxin-proficiency-testing-labs Also see www.feedipedia.org<http://www.feedipedia.org> for the above article, new feed data sheets and other resources. We take this opportunity to inform you with great pleasure that Feedipedia in last 4 years (7 November 2012 - 7 November 2016) has recorded 2.6 million sessions (6 million page views) and currently gets, on average, approximately 3200 sessions hits per day. More than 1.8 million distinct people have used Feedipedia until now. Audience (sessions) increased by 14% in the last 12 months in comparison with the previous 12 month period. During the last 3 months (1 September -1 December 2016), the increase was about 32% compared to the same period last year Thanks to Gilles Tran and Valérie Heuzé for excellent day-to-day management of Feedipedia. * Announcement for 2017 Aflatoxin Proficiency Testing and Control. See below and the attached file. ANNOUNCEMENT FAO-Texas A&M: 2017 Aflatoxin Proficiency Testing and Control Subscription Application for Round One and Two in 2017 There is no participation/subscription fee Deadline for registration: 20 January 2017. Round one will be dispatched during the last week of January 2017 and the participant testing results are to be reported through the APTECA website by 3 April 2017 (see attached file for additional program details). Please provide the following registration information (do not fill with hand, type-in the information sought and send as a word file and not as pdf) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Participant Information Laboratory Contact Person: ___________________________________________ Laboratory Name:___________________________________________________ Mailing Address:____________________________________________________ City:______________________________________________________________ State/Province:______________________________________________________ Zip or Postal Code:___________________________________________________ Country:____________________________________________________________ Phone Number:________________________ FAX Number:_____________________ Contact email address: _____________________________________ Aflatoxin Testing Entity Designation (check all that apply) ___Grain Miller ___ Grain Handlers/Storage ___Government ___Research____Feed industry Type of Aflatoxin Testing Platform If HPLC method: list instrument model and methodology Manufacturer Name and Model: _________________________ If Test kit: list Manufacturer Name: _________________________ Test Kit Type: _______________________________ Reader/Model: ______________________________ Harinder P.S. Makkar Animal Production and Health Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy [FAO_logo_Blue_2lines_en_firmaemail] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FAO-AnimalFeeding-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(FAO-AnimalFeeding-L,SIGNOFF);