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NEW - IAG-Newsletter 2025/26
We are proud to be able to publish new IAG-Newsletter of 2025!/26. There are a lot of interesting topics:
- NEWS of the IAG board
- Summaries of the IAG Proficiency Tests 2025 and the last Annual Meeting in Posieux
- NEWS according to the planned IAG Proficiency tests
- Interesting contributions about risk safety
- Links to helping tools
- and much more…
Please find enclosed the Link for reading
This year we want to start planning and writing the next coming IAG Newsletter a bit earlier (after the summer holidays)!
So, if you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution, please take the opportunity and send it to one of the IAG Board members:
Manuela Zadravec (zadravec@veinst.hr)
Roland Weiss (roland.weiss@ages.at)
Jeroen Vancutsem (JEROEN.VANCUTSEM@favv-afsca.be)
Lotte Hougs (HOU@fvst.dk)
Laura Draack (Laura.Draack@lufa-nord-west.de)
Tommy Stojkovski (tommy.stojkovski@trouwnutrition.com)
Many thanks in advance and enjoy the reading!
In the name of the IAG-board
IAG-Proficiency Test for botanical impurities and prohibited materials 2026
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2026 proficiency test on botanical impurities and prohibited materials detection in feed by light microscopy organized by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH (AGES).
Annual proficiency tests are important for all official control laboratories, national reference laboratories (NRL’s) and private companies’ laboratories seeking for performance assessment of the detection of botanical impurities in feedingstuffs to control the maximum levels as set in directive 2002/32/EC and prohibited materials according to regulation EG 767/2009 Annex III in particular with regards to the ISO/CEN 17025 requirements.
Below you will find the official invitation letter including some practical information as well as the link to the online registration form to fill before 6th of February 2026 the latest.
AGES – Ringtrials
invitation_to_the_iag_proficiency_test_2026.pdf
Invitation to the IAG Proficiency Test 2026 for the determination of Processed Animal Proteins (PAPs) in feed
On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2026 proficiency test on animal proteins detection in feed by light microscopy.
Annual proficiency tests are important for all official control laboratories and private companies laboratories seeking for performance assessment of the detection of animal proteins in feedingstuffs in particular with regards to the ISO/CEN 17025 requirements.
In attachment of this mail you will find the PDF official invitation letter including some practical information as well as the link to the online registration form to fill before the 30th January 2026 the latest.
For practical reasons the number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 60, therefore if your laboratory is willing to join this proficiency test you are invited to react promptly to this opportunity.
New Year Greetings 2026
Dear IAG Member!
In the name of the IAG-Board – especially from Manuela Zadravec (our new president) – please find attached the Christmas and New Year Greetings of IAG!
The IAG-Newsletter 2025/2026 with a lot of interesting contributions as also a big update of the IAG-Homepage will arrive soon!
At the same time, the board would also like to thank all the members for the very fruitful work of 2025 – looking forward to the new challenges of 2026!
NEW PUBLICATION!
Our Colleague Dr. PhD. Zeiri Asma would like to share this preprint with you:
The work is published online as preprint, so the information is available for everyone to read, review and suggest changes. This meant to give insights on difficulties of technicians in some specific cases. As you are the best experts in the field, you have the possibility to give some feedback to make the work better and valuable to help everyone.
If you want to share your opinion, please feel free to get into contact:
Dr. PhD. Zeiri Asma
Independent Researcher, Biology-Entomology
BREAKING NEWS!
Dear IAG members,
It is time now to say good bye to you!
After the IAG 2025 Annual Meeting in Fribourg and Posieux, I am leaving the board and the IAG, as well as my active work at Agroscope by the End of June this year. We had a nice meeting with positive discussions and exchange of experiences.
We left the meeting with one decision:
The structure of the IAG Feed Microscopy Association will obviously undergo changes in its structure and statutes.
What we left open weeks ago: who will be the next president? and will there be a new board member elected?
I am happy to inform you that we had a small board (Teams) meeting yesterday 4th June 2025, and that we can present you, after some exchanges with her, a new board member in the person of Laura Draack, Head of Laboratory for Basic Feed Analysis, Feed Microscopy, Animal Nutrition in LUFA Nord-West in Oldenburg, Germany. She presented the last PT on Composition. Welcome to the board!
Also, we are happy to applaud and thank Manuela Zadravec who accepted to take over the presidency of the Association! You already know her well, she comes from the Croatian veterinary Institute in Zagreb and is member of the board since several years, leading the redaction of the Newsletter, and first Autor of our last common publication.
Many thanks !
I wish you all a very good start in the summertime, nice work and exciting IAG life in future.
Best regards!
Avec mes meilleures salutations,
Geneviève Frick
SAFE THE DATE!
Next Annual IAG-Meeting and Workshop 2026 – LTZ Augustenberg – Karlsruhe/Germany
Dear IAG-microscopists,
The board is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Annual Meeting and Practical Workshop on botanical impurities which will take place on 16-18 June in Karlsruhe Germany.
You will find all information about this conference and details on how to register as soon as everything has been clarified with the organizer.
Looking forward to your participation!
NEW – EXCLUSIVE ONLY FOR MEMBERS!
IAG Proficiency and Ring Test – Reports of the last years are available!
Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!
Please find enclosed the link to the Reports of our IAG Proficiency and Ring Tests right here:
https://www.iag-micro.org/member/reports/
You will find there the reports of the following IAG Proficiency and Ring tests of the last years: Animal Proteins from 2008 up to now Composition from 2014 up to now Botanical Impurities Forbidden Materials – especially packaging materials
By the way: you will also find our publication “Survey among European and Canadian feed control units on monitoring packaging material residues in feed by microscopy analyses” in the italian Journal of Animal Science under following link – Enjoy the reading!