Lectures

Pictures

This event must be seen as an attempt to look at the situation of decision making both from the side of the laboratories,  from the side of those setting the limits to which conformance/non-conformance has to be decided, and from the side of those who are finally going to make the decisions!

Lectures       

Day 1  -   25th of May 

  • The significance of decision making in modern society
    By
    Dr. Kyriacos Tsimillis, Cyprus Accreditation Body, Cyprus 
    (pdf)

  • EU legislation and Analytical Laboratories : business as usual ?
    By Prof. Philip Taylor, EU Commission, JRC/IRMM, Belgium
    (pdf)

  • Monitoring the limits – the importance of market surveillance
    By Chief Consultant Jens Ulrik Jensen, DI - Confed. of Danish Indust., Denmark
    (pdf)

  • Securing the basis for making the right decision: Correct understanding of analytical results
    By Prof. Paul De Biévre, Indep. Consultant on Metrology in Chemistry, Belgium
    (pdf)

  • What can analytical results really tell?
    By Prof. Dr. Wolfhard Wegscheider, University of Leoben, Austria
    (pdf)

  • Decision making – what more do we need than the analytical result?
    By Dr. Bertil Magnusson, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
    (pdf)

Day 2  -  26th of May
  • Regulatory limits and analysis - setting limits and interpreting results with uncertainty
    By Dr. Stephen Ellison, Lab. of the Government Chemist, UK
    (pdf)

  • The principle of risk assessment in use of analytical results.
    By Chief Consultant MSc Arne Büchert, DTU National Food Institute, Denmark
    (pdf)

  • From microbial analysis to decision: the use of risk assessment
    By Senior Scientist Maarten Nauta, DTU National Food Institute, Denmark
    (pdf)

  • Where breaking the limits really matters. Specifications in Clinical Chemistry!
    By Dr. Henk MJ Goldschmidt, Foundation DTC, The Netherlands
    (pdf)

  • Any limits for analytical results in research papers?
    By Ass. Prof. Dr.Sc. Jens E.T. Andersen, DTU Dept. of Chemistry, Denmark
    (pdf)

  • Securing safe foods. What is safe – and what is not, looking at analytical results !!!
    By Prof. Arpad Ambrus, Hungarian Food Safety Office,  Hungary
    (pdf)

  • Equivalence of compliance evaluation.
    Introduction  to workshop by Dr. Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal
    (pdf)

Pictures 

The following pictures were taken by Dr. Renata Pawlak from Poland during the event:

Updated 23. juni 2010