I want to offer a special invitation to all of you to
attend one, or hopefully both, of the upcoming events noted above this
February. The events will be held in
If you have attended a forum in the past or are
thinking about this one please take a moment to read the two brochures to get
an idea of what is planned and how you can benefit from attending. Past
attendance has been good (50-80) bringing together many fertilizer industry and
regulatory chemists from across
A brief overview of each event, who and why you
should attend, is below. Also, please take time to open the attachments to
learn more and to register. Space is limited to the first 25 applicants in the
Validation Seminar, so make you plans soon!
Methods Forum II
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We will continue to address open issues held over
from previous Metals Forums such as; alternate digestion equipment and
solvents, other detection procedures, Hg determination, and more. In addition,
we will build on the work begun last year on other fertilizer methods for
nutrients. These will be based on the updated community method needs
prioritization (which many of you will receive shortly) that will be presented
at the forum. Much work needs to be done to provide our industry and regulators
the best most up to date methods to measure fertilizer products. This meeting
provides the mechanism to develop needed methods and it is where that work will
begin.
Who should attend?
Regulatory, Academic, Vendor, Commercial and Industry
Chemists who analyze nutrients and contaminants in fertilizers. Technical
Experts, Lab and Quality Managers, Product Managers; Regulators and State
Control Officials that wane to assure that accurate efficient and cost
effective methods are developed used and accepted across regulatory and
industry laboratories.
Method Validation
Seminar ’08 –
This new event is designed to develop expertise of
industry and regulatory chemists in the areas of method development, in-house
and multi-lab validations, as well as understanding what is required to conform
to US and internationally accepted method formats and protocols. Additionally,
how to write and review proposed methods that are fit for their purpose in
terms of their chemistry, statistics and scope will be presented by an industry
professional experienced in this area. This information will be valuable no
matter whether you are working to develop or review - an in-house screening
method, a quick in-plant QC test, update your current lab methods for
performance, or participate in a full collaborative validation study. It is
always good to know you are using fully validated and defensible methods to
generate the data you rely upon to make decisions.
Who should attend?
Chemists/Lab Managers from; Regulatory, Academic,
Vendor, Commercial & Industry labs developing or validating methods for
in-house screening or QC use or for use by other labs. In addition, chemists or
other s that are planning to develop or propose a method for use in support of
a new product, nutrient, ingredient or beneficial substance need to know how to
develop acceptable methods and validate them.
More Information -
Thanks,
Bill Hall