Сonferences

Since 2003, when the 1^st International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) was held in Prague, these scientific symposia have become regular and biennial, bringing together scientists from the world’s leading institutions conducting research in the field of ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL STRATEGIES IN FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY CONTROL. In the framework of the RAFA 2013 conference, the result of research of the National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control were presented about the cases natural ways of antibiotics’ ingress into organisms of agricultural animals.

In line with the concept of previous RAFA events, the Universities of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague, Czech Republic) and Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands), which are the organizers of RAFA 2022, have invited all scientific professionals circles and industry as well as representatives of national and international agencies, regulatory bodies, government and commercial laboratories to participate in the 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis.

This year at the conference RAFA 2022 the National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control presented the materials of the joint project Nifursol marker metabolite (DNSH) determination by LC-MS/MS: development of the method and testing on incurred chicken tissues samples. This project is performed in collaboration with R-Biopharm Nederland B.V.

From left to right: Dr. Thomas Nick (Product Manager, R-Biopharm AG), Dr. Serhiy Plotytsia and
Dr. Mariana Rydchuk (Senior Research Scientists, National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control, SCIVP), Dr. Zvenyslava Zasadna (Head of National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control, SCIVP), Dr.Sc. Dmytro Yanovych (Deputy Director, Head of the Department of Physico-Chemical Research Methods, SCIVP), Marco Oteman (Product Manager, R-Biopharm Nederland B.V.) and Dr. Michalina Oplatowska-Stachowiak (R&D Manager, R-Biopharm Nederland B.V.)

The scientists of the National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control express their gratitude to Dr. Michalina Oplatowska-Stachowiak and Marco Oteman for their sincere help and support in presenting the results of our joint work during the presentation of poster materials at the conference.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363504889

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363504852

On July 11-23, 2022 15th International Summer School on Quality Assurance in a Testing Laboratory (ISO/IEC 17025) was carried out on the basis of Analytical Chemistry Expert Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre (CNBCh) of University of Warsaw and took place in the facility of European Centre for Geological Education of the University of Warsaw in Chęciny (Poland). This summer school is managed by “Measurement Science in Chemistry” (MSC) consortium of European universities. It started as an EU funded project and took place for the first time in 2008 in Celje (Slovenia). So far, there have been 433 participants, from 54 different countries in 4 different continents.

The scientists of our Institute Dr. Mariana Rydchuk and Dr. Serhiy Plotytsia (National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control), and MSc Olha Dushna (Laboratory of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography) were the participants of this Summer School together with other alumni of Analytical Chemistry Department of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and got the Certificates of Attendance. The acquired knowledge and practical skills will sufficiently improve the management and routine laboratory practice in our analytical laboratories, accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025.

Main topics of the Summer School were as follows:

• Basics ISO/IEC 17025
• Customer Requirements and Decision Rules
• Method Validation
• Measurement Uncertainty – Principles and Approaches
• Traceability, Calibration and Use of Reference Materials
• Internal and External Quality Control
• Auditing Skills

We are pleased to express our gratitude to the University of Warsaw and, in particular, to Prof. Dr. hab. Ewa Bulska, for the sincere support and financial aid, due to which our participation in 15th International Summer School on Quality Assurance in a Testing Laboratory (ISO/IEC 17025) became possible at such a difficult and crucial time for us and our country. Also we are grateful to the colleagues from Analytical Chemistry Expert Centre of University of Warsaw MSc Andrzej Gawor and Dr. Andrii Tupys for their genuine help and permanent assistance during our stay in Poland.

May 22-25, 2022

The EuroResidue conferences aim to cover all aspects of veterinary drug residues control. Special attention is paid to the latest developments related to the detection and determination of drug residues in food, feed and other relevant matrices and in pharmaceutical and toxicological studies, as part of the registration and regulation of veterinary drugs.

EuroResidue conferences have been held since 1990: in 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. The last meeting was held in Ghent, Belgium (8th International Symposium on Hormone and Veterinary Drug Residue Analysis, which is a supplement to the EuroResidue series) in 2018. In the framework of the last two conferences of the EuroResidue series in 2016 and 2018, the research materials of the National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control were presented regarding the cases of detection of residues of dextramycin, an enantiomer of chloramphenicol, in honey.

The administration of the State Scientific Research Control Institute of Veterinary Medicinal Products and Feed Additives and the scientists of the National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues Control express their sincere gratitude to the Organizing and Scientific Committee of EuroResidue ІХ and personally to Dr. Aldert Bergwerff, Dr. L.A. van Ginkel, Dr. Saskia Sterk & Dr. Sanne van den Biggelaar for their sincere help, support and financial aid, without which the participation of Ukrainian delegation in this conference and the presentation of the poster materials https://www.euroresidue.eu/posters-2022/coccidiostats would not have been possible.