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| Tuesday, April 27 |
Marriott Hotel |
| 7pm to 10pm | Pre-Registration and Reception |
| Trader Room, Marriott Hotel. Finger food and cash bar. | |
| Wednesday, April28 |
Telus Convention Centre (Glenmore Room) |
| 8:00 AM | Registration. |
| Continental breakfast. | |
| 8:55 AM | Welcome and opening remarks. |
| Donna Grant, Chairperson. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Calgary AB | |
| 9:00 AM | Detection and Control of Unregistered Growth Promoters in Veal. |
| John Patterson, Health of Animals Lab. CFIA, Saskatoon, SK | |
| 9:45 AM | Solid Phase Extraction of Endocrine Disruptor Related Organic Compounds from Food and Water. |
| Author Michael S. Young. Presented by Bob Harrison, Waters Ltd. Mississauga, ON | |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM | Duplicate Sampling Reproducibility of Atmospheric Residues of Herbicides for Paired Pan and High Volume Air Samplers. |
| Allan J. Cessna. AAFC, Saskatoon, SK | |
| 11:15 AM | Measurement of Phytoestrogens in Human Biological Fluid by LC/MS. |
| Ella Ng. Centre for Toxicology, Calgary, AB | |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00 PM | Impact of Feedlots on Water Quality. |
| Jim Miller. AAFC Lethbridge Research Station, Lethbridge AB | |
| 1:30 PM | Quantitation of PCB Congeners in Serum using GC/NCI MS. |
| Dr. Adrien Musuku. Centre for Toxicology Calgary, AB | |
| 2:00 PM | Coffee |
| 2:30 PM | Analysis of Four Herbicides and Metabolites in Soil by LC/MS/MS. |
| Jody T. Hoshowski. Envirotest Labs, Edmonton, AB | |
| 3:00 PM | New Applications of Orthogonal Time-of-Flight to GC Analyses. |
| David Heywood, Micromass Canada, Pointe-Claire, Quebec | |
| 3:30 PM | Identification of an Unknown Inorganic Compound by ES/MS. |
| Don Noot, Alberta Agriculture, Edmonton, AB | |
| 4:00 PM | Round Table Discussion. |
| 7:00 PM | Banquet |
| Western Heritage Centre, Cochrane AB | |
| Thursday April 29 | |
| 8:30 AM | Theoretical Leaching Potential v.s. Lab-determined Leaching Patterns of Phenoxy Herbicides in Alberta Soils. |
| Susan Byers, Bernie Hill, Jim Miller, Dan Inaba, Neil Harker, AAFC Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB. | |
| 9:00 AM | Analysis of Dioxins and Furans by Benchtop GC/MS/MS. |
| Colin Jennison. Varian Canada, Mississauga, ON | |
| 9:30 AM | Duplicate Sampling of Surface Films and Associated Pond Water forHerbicides. |
| Don Waite. Environment Canada, Regina, SK | |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee |
| 10:30 AM | Use of NCI/GC/MS for the Analysis of Trace Organics |
| Joe Weitzel. Hewlett-Packard, Wilmington Delaware | |
| 11:00 AM | Determination of ETU Residues in Lettuce and Water by LC/MS/MS |
| Russell Gottschalk. Envirotest Lab, Edmonton, AB | |
| 11:30 AM | Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) for the Determination of Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetable Slurries. |
| Irene Ding, ASL Labs, Vancouver BC | |
| 12:00 AM | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30 PM | Identification of Chemical Warfare Agents in Aqueous Samples by LC-ESI-MS. |
| Paul D'Agostino. Defense Research Establishment Suffield, Medicine Hat, AB | |
| 2:00 PM | Determination of Nitro-PAH in Ambient Air |
| Chung Chiu. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ont. | |
| 2:30 PM | Coffee and Posters (in Glengarry Room) |
| 3:30 PM | Using NCI/MS in Solving Analytical Problems in Organic Analysis |
| Narine Gurprasad, Nick Haidar, Jim Sproull. Environment Canada Edmonton, AB | |
| 4:00 PM | Automated Solid Phase Extraction |
| Author Lubo Stavenik. Beckman, Edmonton, AB | |
| Friday, April 30 | |
| 8:30 AM | Determination of DIPA and Sulfolane in Wetland Vegetation. |
| Kerry Peru. Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK | |
| 9:00 AM | Pesticides in Alberta Precipitation and Ambient Air |
| Gary Byrtus. Alberta Environmental Protection, Edmonton, AB | |
| 9:30 AM | Analysis of Pesticides in Air and Precipitation Samples by GC/MS Iontrap |
| Dave Humphries, Alberta Research Council, Vegreville, AB | |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee |
| 10:30 AM | Business Meeting |
| Next year's host? Beef's and Bouquets. | |
| 11:30 AM | CFIA Lab Tour |
| Please sign list if you wish to tour the lab. It will take approximately 1.5 hrs to travel and to tour. | |