2006, Volume X, Issue 1

Recent Symposia and Conferences

• The EU’s MYCO-GLOBE Project advanced its aim of promoting information exchange with advanced Third Countries at its February 15–17, 2006, Australia-Europe conference, …
• On March 15–17, 2006, approximately 140 participants, mainly from South and Central America, gathered in Córdoba, Argentina, for the MYCO-GLOBE conference…
• On April 8 –11, 2006, the Technical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, hosted the Eighth European Conference on Fungal Genetics…

Future Symposia and Conferences

• The growing body of knowledge on Fusarium will be the subject of an upcoming workshop on June 4–9, 2006, at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production…
• The First SAFE International Congress on Food Safety, Nutrition and Food Safety: Evaluation of Benefits and Risks, will occur in Budapest Hungary, on June 11–14, 2006…
• The Fifth Latin American Congress of Mycotoxicology (V CLAM ENM 2006) will occur at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Floriansopolis, Brazil, June 18–21, 2006…
• On September 10–14, 2006, the ACS will hold the Symposia on Mycotoxins and Food Allergens in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting and Exposition in San Francisco, California…
• The city of Wageningen in the Netherlands will be the site of the Ninth European Fusarium Seminar on September 19–22, 2006…
• The Fourth MYCO-GLOBE International Conference will take place at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA)(CNR) in Bari, Italy, September 26–30, 2006…
• The 2006 World Mycotoxin Forum will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 6–7…
• IUPAC has announced that the Twelfth International IUPAC Symposium on Mycotoxins and Phytotoxins will occur on May 21–25, 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey…

New Mycotoxin Society

• The International Society for Mycotoxicology will convene during the 2006 MYCO-GLOBE International Conference…

Industry News

• Waters Corporation has acquired the food safety technology business of VICAM…

REGULATORY NEWS

• European Commission Regulation no. 401/2006 specifies sampling protocols and performance criteria for analysis methods used to officially monitor mycotoxins in foodstuffs…
• Efforts to harmonize international mycotoxin standards will continue at the upcoming meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission on April 24–28, 2006, in the Hague, the Netherlands…

Recent Publications

• The proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Food Mycology have been collected in Advances in Food Mycology, edited by A. D. Hocking (Springer-Verlag 2006)…
• Anne E. Desjardins’ Fusarium Mycotoxins: Chemistry, Genetics, and Biology offers a thorough overview of Fusarium research from 1809 to the present…

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