IAG-Proficiency Test for botanical impurities and prohibited materials

On behalf of the board of the IAG Section Feed Microscopy we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 2025 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.

In attachment you will find the official invitation letter including some practical information as well as the link to the online registration form to fill before 11th of January 2025 the latest.

- Invitation letter
- AGES Ringtrials

We are looking forward to your participation!

NEWS FROM THE IAG BOARD

Sorry to inform you that Julia Dietz left the IAG board because of professional changes.
By this way IAG wishes you all the best for your new challenges – and will always keep you in mind.
Please find enclosed her “farewell” greetings:

Dear all,
I’m sure you had an interesting IAG meeting in Namur last week. It’s a pity that I couldn’t say goodbye to you in person.
Next week is my last week of work at SGS in Hamburg. It is with a heavy heart that I will leave Feed Microscopy and switch to Eurofins Agroscience Stade.
I would like to thank you all for the many years of great meetings and workshops, for the one or other challenging PT, for quick and uncomplicated support with problematic samples or questions, for our small inter-laboratory comparative studies, and simply for your very pleasant community!
I would be happy to hear from you, feel free to contact me when you are in Hamburg.
My email address: jule.dietz@gmail.com or via LinkedIn
All the best
Julia

• Lotte Hougs from the The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Denmark) and
• Tommy Stojkovski from Masterlab/Nutreco (the Netherlands)

FOR MEMBERS ONLY!

NEW IAG-METHOD

Dear IAG-Member!

Please find enclosed the final and decided version of the new IAG-Method for forbidden material:

FOR MEMBERS ONLY!

ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2024

Dear members of the IAG section Feed Microscopy!

FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF THE ANNUAL IAG MEETING 2024 ARE AVAILABLE!
Please find enclosed the link to the first presentations of our annual IAG meeting in Namur right here:

The report of the meeting will be written and arriving by time!
Many thanks to the colleagues of the CRA-W for a great organization, a very interesting meeting and practical workshop, for the fruitful discussions as well as the wonderful social program and for the warm welcome.

FOR MEMBERS ONLY!

FEED SURVEY 2023/24

In order to find out how diverse the work in IAG members’ laboratories is, we offer you to answer the questions below about the feeds you have tested, in as much detail as possible.

If you had special cases in 2023/2024 or in the recent months, describe them or even bring them with you to the next IAG Annual Meeting and WORKSHOP so that we can discuss them there.
Finally, we would like this file for creating an interactive map especially for our registered members, to be a support for writing our next IAG-Newsletter and for supporting our round table of presentation which should help us to remember some of our / your specialties during the next meeting.
For those Members who already send the feed survey – many thanks. For all the others please be so kind and don’t forget!
Many thanks in advance!

Next-Coming Newsletter

Our next Newsletter will be written in the coming month!

If you are interested in publishing any interesting contribution, we kindly ask you to send it to one of the IAG Board members:
Genny Frick (genevieve.frick@agroscope.admin.ch)
Roland Weiss (roland.weiss@ages.at)
Jeroen Vancutsem (JEROEN.VANCUTSEM@favv-afsca.be)
Manuela Zadravec (zadravec@veinst.hr)
Lotte Houghs (HOU@fvst.dk)
Tommy Stojkovski (tommy.stojkovski@trouwnutrition.com)

Many thanks in advance!
In the name of the IAG-board

IAG Newsletter 2024

Please find enclosed the link to the IAG Newsletter of 2024
Newsletter 2024 Section Feed Microscopy
Enjoy the reading!