WESTERN CANADA TRACE ORGANIC WORKSHOP - 2006 PROGRAM
Vancouver, British Columbia
Monday, April 24, 2006
8:30 am - 8:50 am
Registration
8:50 am – 9:00 am
Welcome, Opening Remarks, Housekeeping, etc.
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Livestock Pharmaceuticals in Agricultural Streams - Analytical Method
and Preliminary Results - Johan van den Heever, Alberta Agriculture,
Edmonton, Alberta
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Carbamates, Diazinon, Imidacloprid, and Piperonyl Butoxide in
Sediments by LC/MS/MS - Million Woudneh, Axys Analytical Services,
Sydney, BC
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Refreshment break - Courtesy of: Mandel Scientific and Canadian Life
Science
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Improvements in Capillary GC Capabilities Sample Preparation to MS
Detection - Rhonda Nolan, SGE
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Detection of Veterinary Pollutants in the Fraser Valley of British
Columbia - Vesna Furtula, Pacific Environmental Science Centre,
Environment Canada, N. Vancouver, BC
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Screening GC/MS Files for More Than 900 Pesticides and Environmental
Contaminants in Less Than Three Minutes - Phil Wylie, Agilent
Technologies, Wilmington DE
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break – Courtesy of:
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Solid Phase Micro-extraction (SPME) Volatiles of Mould Growth on
Building Materials - Tom Barnjak, UBC School of Occupational and
Environmental Hygiene (SOEH).
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Simultaneous Determination of Emamectin and Ivermectin Residues in
Salmon Muscle by LC/MS - Dayue Shang, Health Products and Food
Branch, Health Canada, Burnaby
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Recent Advances in Thermal Desorption – Gas Chromatographic
Instrumentation to Improve the Performance and Reliability of the
Analysis of Ambient Air for Ozone Precursor Compounds, Andrew
Tippler, Perkin Elmer, Shelton Connecticut
Agilent Technologies
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break - Courtesy of: Dionex and Vici
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
GC/MS/MS and SIS Analysis of Ergosterol as a Chemical Biomarker of
Fungal Growth - a Surrogate Indicator for Presence of Harmful Fungal
Spores in Air, Dust, and Building Materials - Timothy Ma, University of
BC
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
LC-MS/MS Analysis of Chlortetracycline in Environmental Samples - Jon
Bailey, NWRI, Saskatoon
WESTERN CANADA TRACE ORGANIC WORKSHOP - 2006 PROGRAM
Vancouver, British Columbia
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Persistence of Sulfamethazine and Chlortetracycline in Prairie Wetlands Allan Cessna, Environment Canada
9:30 am - 10:00am
The Determination of Priority Pesticide Residues in Baby Food – David
Heywood, Waters Canada
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Refreshment Break: Courtesy of Waters and Bruker
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Stability of Tylosin in Honey - Impact on Residue Analysis - Don Noot,
Alberta Agriculture, Edmonton, Alberta
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Analysis of Algal Toxins by GC/MS and LC/MS/MS - Dave Humphries,
Alberta Research Council, Vegreville, AB
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Probe Introduction APPI-LC/MS/MS a New Simple Technique for
Quantifying Analytes from Solids and Extracts - Rob O’Brien, University of
BC, Okanagan
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch break
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Use of High Resolution Selected Reaction Monitoring (H-SRM) to Overcome
Sample Matrix Interferences in Food Residue Analysis by LC-MS-MS Kefei Wang, Thermo Electron, San Jose
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
LC/ESI-MS/MS Analysis of Vitamin A and its Fatty Acyl Esters:
Encountered Difficulties and Challenges - Blair Surridge, Axys Analytical
Services, Sydney, BC
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Refreshment Break - Courtesy of Access Laboratories and Isomass
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Degradation of Naphthenic Acids by Riverine Biofilms - Josh Dumalski,
University of Regina - Faculty of Engineering, Regina, Saskatchewan
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Detection of Food Allergens Using ELISA - Arman Alimkulov, Health Canada,
Health Products and Food Branch, Burnaby, BC
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Photodegradation of Sulfonylureas in Aqueous Solutions Under Natural
Sunlight - Jing-Long Du, Environment Canada, NWRI
5:30 pm
Leave hotel to board cruise ship.
6:30 pm
Board ship.
7:00 pm
Cruise departure.
10:00 pm
Cruise return.
WESTERN CANADA TRACE ORGANIC WORKSHOP - 2006 PROGRAM
Vancouver, British Columbia
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
8:45 am - 9:15 am
Trace Analysis of Salbutamol in Chicken Feed using the Varian 500 Ion
Trap Mass Spectrometer - Crystal Holt, Varian
9:15 am – 9:45 am
N-methyl Carbamate Pesticides in Infant Foods Available in the Canadian
Marketplace - Veronica Roscoe, Health Canada, Winnipeg
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Refreshment break – Courtesy of: Applied Biosystems
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Determination of 100 Endocrine Disrupting Compounds, Pharmaceuticals,
and Personal Care Products in River Water Using Similtaneous APCI and
ESI Ionization - Loren Y. Olson, Christopher D. Borton, Hesham Ghobarah,
Elliott B. Jones, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, Andre Shreiber, Applied
Biosystems/MDS Sciex, Toronto, Canada
10:45 am - 11:15 am
The Analysis and Identification of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) in
food Samples and Supplements, by GC-MS - Jagroop Dahiya, Health
Canada, Health Products and Food Branch, Burnaby
11:15 am - 11:45 pm
A Novel Approach to Handling and Dispensing High Purity Solvents in the
Working Lab - Brian Finnis, Caledon Labs, Georgetown
11:45 pm – 12:00 pm
Closing remarks. Next year’s workshop. Business meeting.