BREAKING NEWS!

Once again, it is time to bid farewell to an IAG-Board member and welcome a new one:
Laura Draack, head of the Laboratory for Basic Feed Analysis, Feed Microscopy, and Animal Nutrition at LUFA Nord-West in Oldenburg, who has served on the board since June 2025, is stepping down due to professional commitments.
She is succeeded by Dr. Luise Greiffer from the Chemical-Veterinary Testing Office Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper (CVUA-RRW), where she also serves as head of the laboratory. (here you can find her contact data)
By this way the IAG community and especially its board wishes both all the best for their new challenges

IAG Annual Meeting 2026

Dear members of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy!
FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF THE ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2026 ARE AVAILABLE!
Please find enclosed the link to the first presentations of our annual IAG annual meeting in Karlsruhe right here

The report of the meeting will be written and arriving on time!

Many thanks to the colleagues of LTZ Augustenberg for the great organization, a very interesting meeting and practical workshop, for the fruitful discussions as well as the wonderful social program and for the warm welcome.

IAG Annual Workshop on Botanical Impurities and Poisonous Plants 2026

Please find some impressions from the IAG WS

Again, many thanks to the colleagues of LTZ Augustenberg for the great organization of the WS, for the fruitful discussions and excellent explanations as well as for the sample and reference material which was collected and divided between the participants to take home for further studies.

Organizing next year’s annual meeting/workshop!

Since no new host could be found for next year’s IAG Annual Meeting during the one, the IAG-Board is now looking for an institute of one of its members that is able to host at least the IAG Annual meeting in 2027 – and, ideally, also a small workshop as well.
The meeting usually takes place in June, depending on the holidays – the exact date and location have not yet been determined.
If you and your institute are interested in organizing the next IAG annual meeting (and workshop), please feel free to contact the IAG-Board by board@iag-micro.org to clarify your questions.

NEW – EXCLUSIVE ONLY FOR MEMBERS – IAG-PT REPORTS 2026 AVAILABLE!

Dear members of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy!
Following reports are now available only for members:
- IAG PT on Animal proteins 2026
- IAG PT on botanical impurities and forbidden material 2026
- IAG PT on poisonous plants 2026

Please find enclosed the link to the Reports of our IAG-Proficiency and Ring Tests right here: https://www.iag-micro.org/member/reports/
Additionally, an IAG PT on packaging materials is organized by WFSR (Wageningen Food Safety Research) in 2026 – registration is already closed, looking forward to the shipment of the samples.

Newsletter 2026/27

This year we want to start planning and writing the next coming IAG-Newsletter a bit earlier – right after the summer holidays!
So, if you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution, please take the opportunity and 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)
Tommy Stojkovski (tommy.stojkovski@trouwnutrition.com)
Lotte Hougs (HOU@fvst.dk)
Luise Greiffer (Luise.Greiffer@cvua-rrw.de)

By this way we want to inform you, that the IAG-Board has an own emailing address where you can directly get into contact with the whole board: board@iag-micro.org

Many thanks in advance!
In the name of the IAG-board