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NEXT ANNUAL IAG-MEETING AND WORKSHOP 2025 – Fribourg/Switzerland
Dear IAG microscopists,
The board is pleased to invite you to the 2025 Annual Meeting and Practical Workshop which will take place on 20-22 May in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Please find attached all information on this Conference and the detail on how to register.
- Invitation letter and direct link for Members to register right here
Looking forward to your participation, I am sending all the best regards from Switzerland!
Geneviève Frick
FOR MEMBERS ONLY!
FEED SURVEY 2023/24
In order to find out how diverse the work in IAG members’ laboratories is, we offer you to answer the questions below about the feeds you have tested, in as much detail as possible.
FOR MEMBERS ONLY!
ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2024
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!
FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF THE ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2024 ARE AVAILABLE!
Please find enclosed the link to the first presentations of our annual IAG meeting in Namur right here:
The report of the meeting will be written and arriving by time!
Many thanks to the colleagues of the CRA-W for a 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.
FOR MEMBERS ONLY!
NEW IAG-METHOD
Dear IAG-Member!
Please find enclosed the final and decided version of the new IAG-Method for forbidden material:
NEWS FROM THE IAG BOARD
Sorry to inform you that Julia Dietz left the IAG board because of professional changes.
By this way IAG wishes you all the best for your new challenges – and will always keep you in mind.
Please find enclosed her “farewell” greetings:
Dear all,
I’m sure you had an interesting IAG meeting in Namur last week. It’s a pity that I couldn’t say goodbye to you in person.
Next week is my last week of work at SGS in Hamburg. It is with a heavy heart that I will leave Feed Microscopy and switch to Eurofins Agroscience Stade.
I would like to thank you all for the many years of great meetings and workshops, for the one or other challenging PT, for quick and uncomplicated support with problematic samples or questions, for our small inter-laboratory comparative studies, and simply for your very pleasant community!
I would be happy to hear from you, feel free to contact me when you are in Hamburg.
My email address: jule.dietz@gmail.com or via LinkedIn
All the best
Julia
- Lotte Hougs from the The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Denmark) and
- Tommy Stojkovski from Masterlab/Nutreco (the Netherlands)
IAG-Proficiency Test for botanical impurities and prohibited materials
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2025 proficiency test on botanical impurities and prohibited materials detection in feed by light microscopy organized by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH (AGES).
Annual proficiency tests are important for all official control laboratories, national reference laboratories (NRL’s) and private companies’ laboratories seeking for performance assessment of the detection of botanical impurities in feedingstuffs to control the maximum levels as set in directive 2002/32/EC and prohibited materials according to regulation EG 767/2009 Annex III in particular with regards to the ISO/CEN 17025 requirements.
In attachment you will find the official invitation letter including some practical information as well as the link to the online registration form to fill before 11th of January 2025 the latest.
- Invitation letter
- AGES Ringtrials
We are looking forward to your participation!
IAG-Proficiency Test on microscopic composition of mixed feed
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2025 PT on the* microscopic composition* of mixed feed, organised by the Lufa Nord-West (Oldenburg, Germany).
Attached to that message you find the invitation letter with some information about this PT and an application form.
- Invitation IAG PT2025 Composition of a mixed feed.pdf
If you would like to participate, please return the completed and signed application form to laura.draack@lufa-nord-west.de before January 13, 2025.
We are looking forward to your registrations!
Best regards,
Laura Draack
IAG-Proficiency Test for Animal Proteins in feedingstuffs
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2025 proficiency test on animal proteins detection in feed by light microscopy.
Annual proficiency tests are important for all official control laboratories and private companies’ laboratories seeking for performance assessment of the detection of animal proteins in feedingstuffs in particular with regards to the ISO/CEN 17025 requirements.
In attachment you will find the official invitation letter including some practical information as well as the link to the online registration form to fill before 24th January 2025 the latest.
- Announcement IAGPT animal proteins 2025.pdf
For practical reasons, the number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 60, therefore if your laboratory is willing to join this proficiency test you are invited to react promptly to this opportunity.
We are looking forward to your future participation.
Yours Truly,
Pascal Veys
IAG New Year's best wishes
Dear colleagues,
It seems to me, that each year is going faster than the last one, and that time before X-mas and New Year is every year more packed with things to do!
Nevertheless, before we all are definitively looking forward to 2025, I would like to make a quick look back in 2024, according to our Association of Feed Microscopists.
At our Annual Meeting 2024 in Namur, I made the introduction on the past year remembering that we had 2 Proficiency Tests organised, that we presented a poster on Packaging Material at the Feed Conference in Milano, Poster that was followed by a publication. We, as a network, also offered a practical training on Microscopy and PCR for components of animal origin, and organised a practical workshop on botanical impurities and composition during the Annual Meeting. On our Website, you can find the program of our meeting and also all the presentations, allowing you to discover or remember how broad and fascinating our field is.
As 2025 is starting, we have offers for 3 new PTs: on Animal Proteins, botanical Impurities and composition. Also our next meeting is in preparation and will be held on 20-22 May 2025 in Fribourg, Switzerland.
The tasks of the association – and especially the board – is to :
- make sure PTs are organised, analyses and presented
- seek for training possibilities
- follow changes in legislation
- develop and standardise methods
- follow changes in the technologies and quality criteria
- communicate through newsletter and the website
- concentrate on our specificity : a broad knowledge and overview on a very complex field
Our goal and sought achievement: make the practical life of our members easier !
This is why I am quite pleased to see that our board, which is composed of a good and balanced set of personalities, is as active as ever!
And this is a very good mirror of the whole network which manages to meet and collaborate in an informal, uncomplicated, easy and friendly way over Europe and farther.
Hopefully, together, we will managed to keep IAG Feed Microscopy on the right path for the next years.
This is how and why I am wishing you a very fruitful and challenging 2025!
With best regards,
Genny Frick, president IAG Feed Microcopy
Next-Coming Newsletter 2025
Our next Newsletter will be written in the coming month!
If you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution, we kindly ask you to send it to one of the IAG Board members:
Genny Frick (genevieve.frick@agroscope.admin.ch)
Roland Weiss (roland.weiss@ages.at)
Jeroen Vancutsem (JEROEN.VANCUTSEM@favv-afsca.be)
Manuela Zadravec (zadravec@veinst.hr)
Lotte Houghs (HOU@fvst.dk)
Tommy Stojkovski (tommy.stojkovski@trouwnutrition.com)
Many thanks in advance!
In the name of the IAG-board
IAG Newsletter 2024
Please find enclosed the link to the IAG Newsletter of 2024
Newsletter 2024 Section Feed Microscopy
Enjoy the reading!
If you had special cases in 2023/2024 or in the recent months, describe them or even bring them with you to the next IAG Annual Meeting and WORKSHOP so that we can discuss them there.
Finally, we would like this file for creating an interactive map especially for our registered members, to be a support for writing our next IAG-Newsletter and for supporting our round table of presentation which should help us to remember some of our / your specialties during the next meeting.
For those Members who already send the feed survey – many thanks. For all the others please be so kind and don’t forget!
Many thanks in advance!
IAG Annual Meeting 2024
On behalf of the IAG feed microscopy board, we are delighted to invite you to join the 2024 annual IAG meeting and practical workshop which will take place on June 5-7, 2024 in Namur, Belgium.
All useful information is to be found in the official invitation letter in the member area.
Registrations will be done online only (by clicking on the “registration form” hyperlink into the invitation letter) and until May 3.
IAG PROFICIENCY TEST 2024
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of several 2024 proficiency tests:
IAG Proficiency test on animal proteins detection in feed by light microscopy.
IAG Proficiency test on composition in mixed feed by light microscopy.
Many thanks to the organizers by this way in advance!
IAG Feed Microscopy Wishes 2024
Dear IAG members,
Although I did not manage to send you a complete End of year letter, I still want to wish you all a very good and fruitful time in 2024.
2023 was a very busy year, and our association managed to make happen all the most important and basic tasks we have given ourselves, and this based on goodwill and dedication of the members only. For this: congratulation and thanks to all, and especially our most active members!!
This is why I just want to advertise our homepage (https://www.iag-micro.org/) and encourage you to find there the presentations held at our Annual meetings, as well as the Newsletters of the past years.
Our next Newsletter will be written in the coming weeks – please note more information about this topic below!
Proficiency Tests or Ring Tests are being prepared and invitations are being sent to you, the 2024 Annual Meeting’s organization is in good hands, and we are following the European Legislation’s changes carefully. We are still in the process of writing Methods and setting up Workshops for the harmonization of our analyses, and we look forward to the always constructive exchange of knowledge and experiences all over Europe and farther. New challenges are being addressed rapidly and with a very strong link to praxis and routine, peer-to-peer communication and respect of each other’s problems are valued in our organization.
Without making it longer, and before it is really not actual anymore : Happy New Year and see you soon in 2024!
IAG president
Geneviève Frick
Nextcoming Newsletter
Our next Newsletter will be written in the coming weeks!
If you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution we kindly ask you to send it to our colleagues Manuela Zadravec (zadravec@veinst.hr) or Roland Weiss (roland.weiss@ages.at)!
Many thanks in advance!
ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2023
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!
First PRESENTATIONS OF THE ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2023 ARE AVAILABLE!
Please find enclosed the link to the first presentations of our annual IAG meeting in Bad Hersfeld right here:
ONLY FOR MEMBERS!
The report of the meeting will arrive soon!
EXCLUSIVE ONLY FOR IAG-MEMBERS!
Please find the presentations of the following workshops on microscopy and PCR exclusively for IAG-Members in the IAG-Member area !
IAG Newsletter 2023
Please find enclosed the link to the IAG Newsletter of 2023
Newsletter 2022-2023 Section Feed Microscopy
Enjoy the reading!
SAVE THE DATE!
The next annual meeting of IAG section Feed Microscopy will be held from 13.-15. June 2023 in Kassel (Germany)
The IAG-board will cordially invite you to join the next annual IAG-meeting – this year organized by our colleagues Britta Hertel and Elke Nitschke from the Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor (LHL) in Kassel (Germany).
Please find the invitation and all neccessary information to the IAG Annual Conference in the Member area: https://www.iag-micro.org/member/meetings/annual-meeting-2023/
Please send the completed registration form to Britta.Hertel@lhl.hessen.de and Elke.Nitschke@lhl.hessen.de :
DEADLINE for registration: 28th April 2023
Many thanks from the IAG-Board to Britta Hertel and her team for the invitation and organisation!
We would be pleased to welcome you at the IAG meeting.
IAG-WISHES
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy,
It is with great pleasure sending you the best wishes for 2023!
Please read this letter from Dr. Geneviève Frick
IAG-Proficiency Test for Animal Proteins in Feed
Dear Colleagues,
Dear Laboratory Managers,
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2023 proficiency test on animal proteins detection in feed by light microscopy.
Annual IAG proficiency tests are important for all official control laboratories and private companies laboratories seeking for performance assessment of the detection of animal proteins in feedingstuffs in particular with regards to the ISO/CEN 17025 requirements.
For years these tests were successively organised by Danish (DPD) and Dutch (WFSR) institutions. Last year a new collaboration was proposed ; from now on this IAG proficiency program will be organised by the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W).
On this page you will find the official invitation letter including some practical information as well as an application form to return by the 23rd January 2023 the latest to the organiser at the following address : proficiency.testing@cra.wallonie.be
For practical reasons the number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 60, therefore if your laboratory is willing to join this proficiency test we invite you to react promptly to this opportunity.
We are looking forward to your future participation.
Yours Truly,
Dr. Pascal Veys
ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2022
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!
First PRESENTATIONS OF THE ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2022 ARE AVAILABLE!
Please find enclosed the link to the first presentations of our annual IAG in Boxmeer (NL) organized by MasterLab (Nutreco) meeting right here:
The report of the meeting will arrive soon!
IAG-WISHES
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy,
It is with great pleasure sending you the best wishes for 2022!
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy,
WFSR has decided to organise one PT this year, the one on animal proteins. This is due to the situation of my retirement this year. Future strategies for PT organisation have still to be worked out. Please find attached the invitation letter and the application form. The time schedule is tight, so the closing date of Friday February 11th is strict.
The IAG proficiency test for animal proteins is in particular important for official control labs and private labs which are not part of the NRL network or national networks for proficiency testing of the detection methods for animal proteins. The current list of e-mail addresses for sending invitations is certainly incomplete, and I will invite you to distribute this invitation in your own network of contacts .
Looking forward to receive your application.
NEWS FROM THE IAG BOARD
As there was the first ONLINE-election of the IAG-Board this year during the annual IAG-Meeting some important changes occured:
First: We have to thank Renate Krull-Wöhrmann for her excellent expertise on the regulatory affairs. She leaves the board because of new challenges!
Second: We welcome to new members of the board: Julia Dietz from SGS – Germany and Manuela Zadravec from the Croation Veterinary Institute
Third: We thank Genny Frick for being our president for another 4 years, Roland Weiss for overtaking the part of the website manager, Jerome Vancutsem for overtaking the Regulatory Affairs and last but not least Leo van Raamsdonk who will still be our scientific officer for one more year until he will retire in 2022.
As there is a lot of work still waiting to be done the IAG audience wishes the new IAG-Board “Good Luck!”
IAG Newsletter 2020!
Although with a big delay, the Board of IAG section Feed Microscopy is pleased to present the Newsletter 2020. Notwithstanding the hurdles of last year, some interesting items are included.