7th Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop

May 5th to 8th, 2019

Foz do Iguazu, Brazil

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Post-Workshop Courses



Throughout LAPRW 2019 there will be simultaneous translation English/Spanish and Spanish/English


However, there will NOT be simultaneous translation during pre and post workshop courses


May 9th, 2019



Course 3 (Only in Spanish)

9:00 - 12:25

European Guidelines for Quality Control in the Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Foods (Document SANTE / 2017/11813 in Detail)

Presentation and analysis of Document SANTE / 2017/11813

Participatory Discussion on Specific Aspects of the Document SANTE / 2017/11813, including:

Initial Validation Criteria

Calibration

Recovery of Routine Control and Correction of Results with Recovery Factors

Estimation and Use of Measurement Uncertainty

Issues Raised by Participants in the Course

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Antonio Valverde

(University of Almeria, Spain)

Professor of chemistry at the University of Almeria (Almería, Spain) where he co-founded the Pesticide Residues Research Group

Author/publisher in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, Food Control, Journal of the AOAC International, and other internationally recognized scientific journals of agro-food chemistry. Member of Journal of Environmental Science and Health-Part B Editorial Board

Founding member of the European Pesticide Residue Workshop (EPRW) Committee, being the president of EPRW 1998 (Almería, Spain) and will be at the EPRW 2020 (Granada, Spain). One of the founders of the Mediterranean Group of Research on Pesticides (MGPR)

Member of the "Advisory Group" appointed by the European Commission (DG SANTE) to review/update the EU requirements on quality control in pesticide residue laboratories (EU-AQC-SANTE document)

Member of the "Quality Control Group - Scientific Committee" of proficiency testing (EUPTs) on pesticide residues organized by EU Reference Laboratories (EURLs)

For 10 years he collaborated as technical auditor with the National Accreditation Body of Spain (ENAC)



Course 4 (Only in English)

13:30 - 17:30

Efficient Start-to-Finish Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Foods

Introduction and Background: purposes for analysis, data quality objectives, and validation

Sample Processing: theory and practice to quickly obtain minimal but representative sample test portions for analysis

Sample Preparation: theory and practice of different extraction and cleanup methods, including automation, to achieve high and consistent recoveries of a wide scope of analytes (or narrow scope depending on the application) while minimizing direct and indirect interferences and matrix effects from sample components

Analysis: high-throughput methods less than 10 min each in gas and liquid chromatography coupled to modern mass spectrometric techniques for the detection of hundreds of analytes in complex matrices

Data handling: how to automatically integrate chromatographic peaks with reliable quantification and identification of analytes at trace levels in complex matrices without human review or manual re-integrations

Speaker: Dr. Steven Lehotay

(United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA)

Research chemist (chief scientist) at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Since 1992 has been researching the development and improvement of methods that analyze pesticides, veterinary drugs and other contaminants in food and environmental samples. Research addresses all aspects of the analytical process, including sample processing, preparation, separations, detection, sorting, quantification, identification/confirmation and data processing using many types of analytical techniques applied in new and useful ways

Received over 15 international awards

Author/co-author of more than 145 scientific publications and more than 220 scientific abstracts



Course 5 (Only in English) (in paralel with courses 3 and 4)

09:00 - 17:30

The EU monitoring programme

Introduction to EU legislation on pesticides in or on food of plant and animal origin

The EU control programmes on pesticide residues in food; model to collect monitoring data

Pesticide Residue Intake Model (EFSA PRIMo model)- the European tool currently used for dietary risk assessment related to pesticide residues in food

Specific consideration related to pesticide risk assessment performed with monitoring data

Chilean experience setting up a monitoring programme

Round table discussion, sharing experiences in setting up monitoring programmes and using monitoring data for consumer risk assessments

Speaker: Dr. Hermine Reich

(European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)), Italy

Experiences in consumer risk assessment of pesticide residues

Knowledge of the European food legislation, in particular with respect to pesticides and setting of maximum residue levels

Experiences in pesticide monitoring planning and assessment of results

Experiences in training of experts in the area of pesticide risk assessment

Contribution to development of guidelines regarding pesticides (OECD guidelines, EU guidelines)

Familiarity with international scientific assessments of pesticides (e.g. JMPR)

Experience in working in an international environment

Speaker: Dr. Paula Medina

(European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)), Italy

Her present position is Scientific Officer at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in the Pesticide Residues Unit

Responisble for the elaboration of the EU reports on pesticide residues in food and risk assessment on monitoring data

Responisble for the evaluation of dossiers for authorisation of maximum residue levels (MRLs) under Art. 10 of Regulation (EC) 396/2005

From 2003-2012 worket at the European Reference Laboratory in Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables (EURL-FV), Almeria, Spain

Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Aylwin

(Chilean Agency for Food Safety and Quality (ACHIPIA)), Chile

For more than 20 years worked in the fruit business, as well as a grower, pest management advisor and later as product manager in a Chilean fruit export company

Advisor in the Chilean Food Quality and Safety Agency (ACHIPIA) since 2009

Member of the Chilean Codex committee for pesticides residues. Has attended CCPR meetings from 2012 to date

In ACHIPIA leads the National Pesticide Program that coordinates pesticides related activities from different Chilean government agencies dealing on register, MRL´s monitoring, MRL settings and pesticides residues exposure assessments

It is also responsible for managing the Food Alert System (RIAL) of Chile