BREAKING NEWS!

Dear IAG members,
It is time now to say good bye to you!
After the IAG 2025 Annual Meeting in Fribourg and Posieux, I am leaving the board and the IAG, as well as my active work at Agroscope by the End of June this year. We had a nice meeting with positive discussions and exchange of experiences.
We left the meeting with one decision:
The structure of the IAG Feed Microscopy Association will obviously undergo changes in its structure and statutes.

What we left open weeks ago: who will be the next president? and will there be a new board member elected?

I am happy to inform you that we had a small board (Teams) meeting yesterday 4th June 2025, and that we can present you, after some exchanges with her, a new board member in the person of Laura Draack, Head of Laboratory for Basic Feed Analysis, Feed Microscopy, Animal Nutrition in LUFA Nord-West in Oldenburg, Germany. She presented the last PT on Composition. Welcome to the board!

Also, we are happy to applaud and thank Manuela Zadravec who accepted to take over the presidency of the Association! You already know her well, she comes from the Croatian veterinary Institute in Zagreb and is member of the board since several years, leading the redaction of the Newsletter, and first Autor of our last common publication.

Many thanks !

I wish you all a very good start in the summertime, nice work and exciting IAG life in future.
Best regards!
Avec mes meilleures salutations,
Geneviève Frick

SAFE THE DATE!

Next Annual IAG-Meeting and Workshop 2026 – LTZ Augustenberg – Karlsruhe/Germany

Dear IAG-microscopists,
The board is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Annual Meeting and Practical Workshop on botanical impurities which will take place on 16-18 June in Karlsruhe Germany.

You will find all information about this conference and details on how to register as soon as everything has been clarified with the organizer.

Looking forward to your participation!

NEXT COMING NEWSLETTER 2026

Our next Newsletter will be written in the next coming months!
If you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution, we kindly ask you to send it to one of the IAG Board members:

Manuela Zadravec (zadravec@veinst.hr)
Roland Weiss (roland.weiss@ages.at)
Jeroen Vancutsem (JEROEN.VANCUTSEM@favv-afsca.be)
Lotte Hougs (HOU@fvst.dk)
Laura Draack (Laura.Draack@lufa-nord-west.de)
Tommy Stojkovski (tommy.stojkovski@trouwnutrition.com)
Many thanks in advance!
In the name of the IAG-board

IAG Newsletter 2025

Please find enclosed the link to the new IAG-Newsletter of 2025!
Newsletter 2025 Section Feed Microscopy
Enjoy the reading!

NEW – EXCLUSIVE ONLY FOR MEMBERS!

IAG Proficiency and Ring Test – Reports of the last years are available!

Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!
Please find enclosed the link to the Reports of our IAG Proficiency and Ring Tests right here:
https://www.iag-micro.org/member/reports/

You will find there the reports of the following IAG Proficiency and Ring tests of the last years: Animal Proteins from 2008 up to now Composition from 2014 up to now Botanical Impurities Forbidden Materials – especially packaging materials

By the way: you will also find our publication “Survey among European and Canadian feed control units on monitoring packaging material residues in feed by microscopy analyses” in the italian Journal of Animal Science under following link – Enjoy the reading!