POSTER AWARDS

The prestigious RAFA 2017 Award for the best poster (cash award) was given to:
R1 – Annie von Eyken, Ricardo Claudio, Stéphane Bayen
McGill University, Canada
COMPARISON OF EXTRACTION PROCEDURES TO EXPLORE THE FATE OF NICARBAZIN RESIDUES IN EGGS AFTER COOKING BY USING A NON-TARGETED ANALYSIS WORKFLOW

Poster Award sponsored by company Waters (cash award) was given to:
B58 – Joana Carvalho, Gema Puertas, Sarah Azinheiro, Joao Gaspar, Alejandro Garrido-Maestu, Lorena Diéguez, Jorge Barros-Velázquez, Manuel Vázquez, Marta Prado
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
MINIATURIZED DEVICES FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION PROVIDING HIGHLY EFFICIENT DNA EXTRACTION FROM OLIVE OIL

Poster Award sponsored by media partner Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (voucher for selection of books) was given to:
C2 – Abeer H. M Safaryan, Alvaro Garcia-Cruz, Katarzyna Smolinska-Kempisty, Elena Piletska, Kal Karim, Sergey A. Piletsky, Hasim Munawa
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
DETERMINATION OF FUMONISIN B1 ON CONTAMINATED IRAQI AND INDONESIAN CORNS USING A PIONEERING ELISA BASED ON MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES

Poster Award sponsored by media partner Elsevier (voucher for selection of books) was given to:
G5 – Luisa Cheng, Xiaohua He, Larry Stanker, Reuven Rasooly, Bradley Hernlem
U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States of America
DEVELOPMENT OF DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOODBORNE TOXINS

Poster Awards sponsored by CAMO Software Inc. company (license of The Unscrambler X 10.5) were given
1^st: B2 – Brunella Miano, Roberto Piro
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy
CHARACTERIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION OF WHEATS AND FLOURS BY DART-HRMS

2^nd: B28 – Connor Black, Olivier Chevallier, Niladri Chatterjee, Simon Haughey, Julia Balog, Sara Stead, Steven Pringle, Zoltan Takats, Christopher Elliott
Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
TACKLING FRAUD IN SEAFOOD GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS: INNOVATIONS IN DETECTION USING RAPID EVAPORATIVE IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY (REIMS)

3^rd: K33 – Vojtech Hrbek, Frantisek Kratky, Zbynek Dzuman, Monika Tomaniova, Jana Hajslova
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COUPLED WITH MASS SPECTROMETRY: NOVEL APPROACH FOR AFLATOXINS ANALYSIS IN HIGH FATTY MATRICES

Best posters voted by RAFA 2017 delegates:
F22 - Tomas Gramblicka¹, Roland Kallenborn², Jana Hajslova¹, Jana Pulkrabova^1
1) University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, Czech Republic
²⁾ Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
ANALYSIS OF OXYGENATED AND NITRATED DERIVATIVES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN AIR USING GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY HYPHENATED WITH MASS SPECTROMETRY OPERATED IN NEGATIVE ION CHEMICAL IONIZATION (GC-MS-NICI)

N2 - Francisco José Díaz Galiano, María Jesús Martínez Bueno, Łukasz Rajski, Víctor Cutillas, Amadeo Rodríguez Fernández-Alba
EURL-F&V, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (ceiA3), Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Almeria, Spain
VALIDATION OF AN ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN ORGANIC TOMATOES APPLICABLE IN ROUTINE PRACTICE

B10 - Simon Haughey, Pamela Galvin-King, Chris Elliott
Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
RAPID DETECTION OF HERB AND SPICE ADULTERATION

K48 - David Stadler, David Steiner, Rudolf Krska, Michael Sulyok
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Center for Analytical Chemistry, Tulln, Austria
CONTRIBUTION OF THE LOT-TO-LOT VARIATION TO THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY OF LC-MS/MS BASED MULTI-MYCOTOXIN DETERMINATION