VENDOR SET-UP
Ardis Ballroom

REGISTRATION
Perkins Room

MIDWEST SECTION AOAC BOARD MEETING
Berringer Boardroom, lower level

VENDORS’ EXPOSITION and WELCOME RECEPTION
Ardis Ballroom

BREAKFAST BUFFET (Included with full day registration)
Ardis Ballroom

REGISTRATION
Perkins Room

POSTERS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
Perkins Room

VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM:  GENERAL SESSION
Ardis Ballroom

8:00 AM

(1)  Risk-Based Thinking in the Testing and Calibration Laboratory: Requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Dr. Dave Nelson, International Accreditation Service

9:00 AM

(2)  Assessing Risks and Opportunities for Meeting the Requirements ISO/IEC 17025: (2017)
Lawrence Lagman, Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, Inc.

MORNING BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

9:45 AM

(3)  Nebraska Ebola Experience:  Laboratory Preparedness
Karen Stiles, Nebraska Public Health Laboratory

10:45 AM

(4)  Nebraska National Guard 72nd Civil Support Team:  Focus on Emergency Response for Food Safety
Dr. Bernadette McCrory, Analytical Laboratory System

LUNCH – Welcome by Lt. Governor Mike Foley
Ardis Ballroom

VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM:  FOOD SAFETY
Rozier Room, lower level

12:45 PM

(5)  Progress in the Control of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Beef Through the USDA-NIFA STEC Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP)
Dr. Rodney Moxley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1:45 PM

(6)  Understanding Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment to Support Decision Makings for Food Safety Management
Dr. Bing Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

AFTERNOON BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

2:45 PM

(7)  “A North American Perspective on DON Management in Grains”
Dr. Andrea Bianchini, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:30 PM

(8)  Microbiological Safety Issues in Wheat and Flour
Dr. Jayne Stratton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

SYMPOSIUM:  FEED AND FERTILIZER
Crouch/Rodgers Room, lower level

12:45 PM

(10)  Feed Safety and Regulations in the Feed Industry
Clover Heneger and Krystal Gage, Cargill

1:15 PM

(11)  Critical Factors in Determining Fiber Content of Feeds, Foods and Their Ingredients
Lawrence Novotny, retired from South Dakota State University; George Fahey, Jr., University of Illinois; Brian Layton, ANKOM Technology Corporation; David Mertens, Mertens Innovation and Research LLC

1:45 PM

(12)  Preliminary Sugar Study in Animal Feeds by HPLC with Refractive Index Detection
Darrell Clinton and H. Dorota Inerowicz, Purdue University

AFTERNOON BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

2:45 PM

(13)  Forage Sampling Revisited: A Review of the 2011 NFTA/AOAC Workshop Findings
Kevin Grooms, National Forage Testing Association and American Agricultural Laboratory

3:30 PM

(26)  Upcoming Title from Sharon Webb

Memorial Stadium Tour
Group #1 – Departs the hotel lobby at 4:10 PM. Tour begins at 4:30 PM.
Group #2 – Departs the hotel lobby at 4:25 PM. Tour begins at 4:45 PM.
We will walk to Memorial Stadium and then to the Rule G Nightclub for a fabulous prime rib dinner buffet.
*If you need a ride to the stadium or to Rule G, please check in at the Registration table by 12:45 PM on Tuesday to make arrangements.

Prime Rib Dinner Buffet
Rule G Nightclub (350 Canopy Street #300).

BREAKFAST BUFFET (Included with full day registration)
Ardis Ballroom

REGISTRATION
Perkins Room

POSTERS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
Perkins Room

VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM:  PESTICIDE RESIDUE
Rozier Room, lower level

8:00 AM

(21)  Challenges and Considerations of Field Sampling for Pesticide Residue Analyses
Tim Creger and Eric Fuentes-Ruiz, Nebraska Department of Agriculture

9:00 AM

(22)  Extracting Phenoxyacid Pesticides from Vegetation and Soil: Where we have been, where we are, and where we will be
Ken Kise, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship

MORNING BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM:  FEED AND FERTILIZER
Rozier Room, lower level

10:00 AM

(16)  Multi-Lab Validation Study for a High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection (HPAEC-PAD) Sugar Profile Method Applicable to a Wide Variety of Matrices
Andrew Ruosch, David Ellingson, Dan Berg, Scott Wejrowski, and Tom Vennard, Covance Inc.

SYMPOSIUM:  VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
Rozier Room, lower level

10:45 AM

(23)  Transferring Liquid Chromatography-UV to LC-MS, Challenges and Benefits
Larry Meeker, Waters Corporation

LUNCH – 2019 MWAOAC Meeting Announcement and Door Prizes
Ardis Ballroom

VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM:  FOOD SAFETY
Rozier Room, lower level

12:45 PM

(9)  Food Allergen Recalls – What are the Root Causes and What Can Be Done to Mitigate the Risk?
Dr. Joe Baumert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

SYMPOSIUM:  VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
Rozier Room, lower level

1:30 PM

(24)  CEM Microwave sample Preparation and Proximate Analysis
Tom Steichen, CEM

AFTERNOON BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

2:15 PM

(25)  Dumas or Kjeldahl for Reference Analysis? Comparison and Considerations for Nitrogen/Protein Analysis of Food and Feed
Michelle Walter, FOSS North America

SYMPOSIUM:  GENERAL TOPICS FOR ALL
Crouch/Rodgers Room, lower level

8:00 AM

(14)  Hot Off the Press!  GOOD Test Portions
Nancy Thiex, Thiex Laboratory Solutions

8:45 AM

(15)  Selection of Comminution and Splitting Equipment
Lawrence Novotny, retired from South Dakota State University

MORNING BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

10:00 AM

(17)  QA/QC:  A Critical Need for Laboratory Sampling
Nancy Thiex, Thiex Laboratory Solutions

SYMPOSIUM:  FEED AND FERTILIZER
Crouch/Rodgers Room, lower level

10:45 AM

(18)  Determination of Boron in Fertilizer Materials by ICP-OES
Natalie Newlon and James Bartos, Purdue University

LUNCH – 2019 MWAOAC Meeting Announcement and Door Prizes
Ardis Ballroom

12:45 PM

(19)  Recommendations and Critical Factors in Determining Moisture in Animal Feeds
Lawrence Novotny, retired from South Dakota State University

1:30 PM

(20)  Validation of Loss on Drying Methods in Pet Foods
Dr. Jane Caldwell, Midwest Labs

AFTERNOON BREAK
Ardis Ballroom

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday and Wednesday

SYMPOSIUM:  POSTERS
Perkins Room(26)  Analysis of Furfuryl Alcohol in a Variety of Foods and Beverages
Matthew Eckert, Covance Laboratories, Inc.(27)  Improving Efficiency of Vitamin E Analysis Through the Use of UPLC
Seok-Hee Hyun and H. Dorata Inerowicz, Purdue University(28)  Moisture Determination in Pet Food Finished Products: Comparison of Testing Methods
Jim Costello, Karen Kimball, Tom Knese, Eric Mathews, and Karen Regina, Nestle Purina PetCare Analytical Laboratories; Bozena Lusiak, Nestle Purina PetCare Product Technology Center

(29)  Determination of Aminopyralid, Clopyralid, and Picloram in Soil, Compost, and Vegetation by Solid-Phase Extraction and LC-ES/MS/MS
Kelsey Powers, Montana Department of Agriculture

(30)  Determination of Chlorinated Acid Herbicides in Vegetation by Liquid Chromatography-Electrospray/Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry
Kelsey Powers, Montana Department of Agriculture