Following the successful EU projects (BioCop & CONffIDENCE) dissemination workshop on Application of ambient mass spectrometry for rapid analysis of food contaminants/residues held in 2010, the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Prague & RIKILT, Wageningen are organizing on June, 18-20, 2012 a RAFA associated workshop dedicated to all laboratories concerned with food / natural products analysis. The mission of this Workshop is to introduce challenging innovations in ambient mass spectrometry-based measurements and, last but not least, bring together all current and future users.

The workshop program will comprise presentations by ICT, RIKILT and other invited international experts (final list will be provided in March) specialized in applications listed below. Tailor made solutions as well as troubleshooting issues will be interactively discussed; strategies applicable for interpretation of generated data will be also thoroughly addressed.

- Chemical safety control (residues / contaminants / toxicants)

- Authenticity / traceability / fraud

- Forensics (food / nutraceuticals / environmental matrices)

- Metabolomics (fingerprinting / profiling)

Vendor seminars and exhibitions will be organized within the event.
Poster session will give a floor for presentations and discussions of participants´ research in areas relevant to the workshop topics.

ANALYTICAL PLATFORMS

The workshop will focus on both the theory and practical application strategies documented on real-life matrices / case studies; the tentative list of MS-based instrumental platforms that will be presented is as follows:

- Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) coupled to a high-resolution MS (time-of-flight, TOF or orbitrap-MS)
- Atmospheric Solids Analysis Probe (ASAP) coupled to quadrupole/TOFMS in combination with ion mobility
- Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis (LESA) coupled to a quadrupole/TOFMS
- Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled to high-resolution MS/MS
- (Comprehensive two-dimensional) gas chromatography coupled to TOFMS
- Direct infusion-high resolution MS