Europe Section History

Europe Section of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

"The Scientific Association Dedicated To Analytical Excellence"

History of the Section

In March 1983 a first meeting of the AOAC Europe steering committee was organized in Brussels. The activities stretched from co-organizing analytical events to organizing AOAC Training Courses on Quality Assurance in Europe in 1986 and 1987 and a microbiological seminar in Santander, Spain in 1988. Following the urge by the AOAC Board of Directors the steering committee organized a one-day symposium in the Netherlands in 1989 and during that symposium the attendees voted for members of an Executive Committee. The chosen persons divided the positions of president, secretary and treasurer.

The "LLSS" Low Lands SubSection, founded in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is since 25 March 2003 the Lowlands section. Visit the Homepage of the Lowlands Section

The Section organized symposia (time, place and title):

1990 October 11-12 in Brussels, Belgium
Analytical Science in Europe. The elimination of barriers

1991 November 12-13 in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Protection of Public Health. A Challenge for Food and Environmental Analysts

1993 March 29-30 in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
AOAC Europe in cooperation with Eurachem. Good Automated Laboratory Practice.

1994 September 29-30 in Nyon, Switzerland
Food and Feed Analysis. A Focus on methods with minimal hazards to Health and Environment

1996 April 18-19 in Paris, France
AOAC Europe in cooperation with ASFILAB (= French Association of Food Chemists). Vitamins, Micronutrients and Microbiology
Quality Assurance and Advances in Analytical Methodology

1998 June 11-12 in Copenhagen, Denmark
AOAC Europe in cooperation with Eurachem, Denmark
Quality Assurance in Computerized Laboratories - Analytical, Clinical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories.

2000 May 17-18 in Munich, Germany
Conference on Genetically Modified Organisms in the Food Chain;
AOAC Europe in cooperation with Lebensmittelchemische Gesellschaft der GDCH and Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft (DVG)

2005 March 3-4 in Brussels, Belgium
Symposium on Legal limits on the road to food safety: establishing sound criteria for compliance decisions.
AOAC Europe in cooperation with Eurachem

2006 March 27-28 in Brussels, Belgium
4th International Workshop on Water in Food.
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements co-sponsored by AOAC Europe

2006 November 6-7 in Limassol, Cyprus
International Workshop
Foods to Dye for - Contaminants-sampling, analysis, legal limits.