News and events

5th MS Food DAY and MASSTWIN Exploratory Workshop on the use of MS techniques to trace the food origin and quality of food, Bologna, Italy, October 11-13, 2017

16.10.2017

MASSTWIN supported the organization of this year's MS Food DAY, organized by the Mass Spectrometry section of the Italian Chemical Society. Anja Mahne Opatić, the ISO-FOOD fellow, received the Best Poster Award among 73 poster presentations, with her contribution "A preliminary traceability model for tomato using analysis of stable isotopes, elemental content and chemical markers". Click the title for more details.

ISO-FOOD Summer School on element speciation in food, Ljubljana, 25-27 September, 2017

3.10.2017

The ERA Chair Iso-Food Summer School addressed the speciation of trace and toxic elements in food by providing participants with an in-depth knowledge of trace element speciation using examples of essential and non-essential elements including Cr, Zn, Ni, Hg and As to teach demonstrate the state-of-the art analytical approaches.

Satellite Event at 16th ICCE in Oslo, Norway, June 18-22, 2017

6.8.2017

The satellite event was co-organized by projects MASSTWIN and ISO-FOOD- Its aim was to highlight the recent advances in instrumentation and its application in the environment, food and health related research, and by doing so, to explore the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Training workshop for stakeholders, June 15, Ljubljana

6.8.2017

A half-day training workshop for stakeholders on application of stable isotopes for determination of origin and authenticity of food was organised for the experts from the Adminstration of Republic of Slovenia for food safety, veterinary and plant protection.