News - Results of new techniques well received by external experts

April 2004  An important meeting for the DIFFERENCE and DIAC projects took place at 14 April 2004 in Antwerp. At that day the project partners met for the second time with the expert panel: dr. Frans Verstraete (EU DG SANCO), dr. Peter Behnish (Eurofins, Münster, Germany), dr. Rainer Malisch (CVUA Freiburg, Germany), and dr. Bert van Bavel (Örebro University, Sweden). The results so far obtained in the two projects were presented by the various partners. The results of the interlaboratory tests and validation studies, coordinated by Joris van Loco (Scientific Institute for Public Health, Brussels) shown below, were well received by the experts. Although a number of useful comments were given by the experts, it may be expected that the two methods GC-LRMS/MS and GCx GC-ECD will be good enough to be used as routine methods or even, in the case of GC-LRMS/MS as a reference method.