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 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]

 

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

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