2018 MWAOAC Program Book

2018 Midwest AOAC Program

Monday June 4th, 2018

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
VENDOR SET-UP
Ardis Ballroom
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
REGISTRATION
Perkins Room
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
MIDWEST SECTION AOAC BOARD MEETING
Berringer Boardroom, lower level
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
VENDORS’ EXPOSITION and WELCOME RECEPTION
Ardis Ballroom

Tuesday June 5th, 2018

6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
BREAKFAST BUFFET (Included with full day registration)
Ardis Ballroom
7:00 AM – 11:30 AM
REGISTRATION
Perkins Room
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
POSTERS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
Perkins Room
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM
VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom
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8:00 AM – 11:15 AM
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.
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
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
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
LUNCH – Welcome by Lt. Governor Mike Foley
Ardis Ballroom
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom
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12:45 PM – 4:15 PM
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
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
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
**For another FOOD SAFETY talk…………..…….….check out Wednesday afternoon!
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12:45 PM – 4:15 PM
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
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
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
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TUESDAY EVENING SOCIAL

4: 30 PM – 5:45 PM
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.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Prime Rib Dinner Buffet
Rule G Nightclub (350 Canopy Street #300).

Wednesday June 6th, 2018

6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
BREAKFAST BUFFET (Included with full day registration)
Ardis Ballroom
7:00 AM – 11:30 AM
REGISTRATION
Perkins Room
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
POSTERS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
Perkins Room
9:00 AM – 11:45AM
VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom
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8:00 AM – 11:15 AM
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
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9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
MORNING BREAK
Ardis Ballroom
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
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.
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10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
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
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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
LUNCH – 2019 MWAOAC Meeting Announcement and Door Prizes
Ardis Ballroom
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
VENDORS’ EXPOSITION
Ardis Ballroom
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
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
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1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
SYMPOSIUM:  VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
Rozier Room, lower level
1:30 PM
(24)  CEM Microwave sample Preparation and Proximate Analysis
Tom Steichen, CEM
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM
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
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8:00 AM – 10:45 AM
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
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
MORNING BREAK
Ardis Ballroom
10:00 AM
(17)  QA/QC:  A Critical Need for Laboratory Sampling
Nancy Thiex, Thiex Laboratory Solutions
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10:45 AM – 2:15 PM
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
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
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
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM
AFTERNOON BREAK
Ardis Ballroom
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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

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