July Newsflash 2009
Company News July 2009
UK, Midlands - Potato blight event
The Eurofins Agroscience Services potato demonstration site for 2009 will be located at Barrow on Trent, Derbyshire, UK. The event is expected to be staged during the last week in August (Thursday 27th is currently the preferred date), however, the date will be finalised in early August. This year we welcome back our existing clients who will all be demonstrating their potato blight portfolio’s to the potato industry, and all visitors.
Basis points will again be awarded for the event, details can be found at the information tent, and catering will be available as usual.
This year we have over 900 plots on this site dedicated to potato blight evaluation, of which approximately 50% are available for demonstration this year. Overall as a company in the 2009 season, Eurofins Agroscience Services will be conducting over 1800 blight plots in the UK this season, serving 16 different clients.
In addition, Eurofins Agroscience Services can also offer irrigated/inoculated and natural infection potato blight trials in Germany, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
For more information on our potato blight trials, please contact Dr. Owen Scrimshaw – owen.scrimshaw@eurofinsagro.com
Finally – don’t forget to bring your business cards along! Following the success of last year’s Champagne Prize Draw, we’ll be repeating it in 2009.
UK; Wilson – Increasing scope of services
New areas are under development at Wilson and include a new Chemical Shipment Store and an improved ELISA Laboratory.
Chemical Shipment is an area that has seen interest from clients over the past couple of years and, with a purpose built new chemical store and weighing out area, we look forward to being able to offer this service to more clients. We currently work with several clients in shipping chemicals to a range of locations across Europe.
We are developing our ELISA Laboratory to enable us to increase and compliment our service offering to our client base and are currently recruiting for this new area. ELISA projects include virus identification / quantification and protein expression analysis for GMO varieties.
For more information on either of the areas detailed above, please contact info@eurofinsagro.com
Germany; Stade – Processing laboratory
Interest in the processing of crops has increased since legal stipulations became more stringent and demand more emphasis on this type of study.
In 2008 Eurofins-GAB invested in personnel and food processing machinery to offer a Processing Laboratory as an in-house service; a decision driven by the desire to offer clients complete reassurance that all aspects of the work are compliant. We can ensure that unique shipment and storage requirements are achieved and that the demanded periods between processing steps are complied with.
In 2008 Eurofins-GAB performed 25 processing studies in total on a huge variety of crops (GLP) including apples, bananas, barley, beer, cabbage, cacao (chocolate), cherries, cotton, grapes, maize, hops, oats, olives, potatoes, rape, rice and strawberries.
For further information please contact André Oetjen - andre.oetjen@eurofins-gab.com
EAS Inc., USA – Consolidate in house QA resource
Eurofins Agrosciences Services Inc has strengthened its QA resource by welcoming two experienced team members on board and is now responsible for QA for the AHETF (Agricultural Handler Exposure Task Force, L.L.C.)
Based in Lexington KY, Randy Fuller specializes in setting up GLP programs, preparing SOPs and QAU support for industry task forces, worker exposure studies and ethical regulatory requirements, aerial application studies, and analytical chemistry. He covers field and lab inspections throughout US & Canada.
He is joined by Angela Fuller, an experienced QA Manager with extensive experience in standard and radio-labelled environmental fate, residue, and worker exposure studies. Angela specializes in regulatory audits and submissions, and GLP archives.
Both Angela and Randy have over twenty years experience in the field of quality assurance and regulatory affairs. They have been involved with countless facility, field and laboratory audits across the US.
For further information please contact Randy Fuller – randy.fuller@eurofinsagro.com
Global - Post harvest quality assessments
Eurofins Agroscience Services is fully equipped to offer various post harvest quality assessments (Efficacy / Quality / Residue Studies) on a large range of crops.
Whilst post harvest storage assessments under controlled atmosphere are notoriously technically complex, our experienced staff can confidently generate the studies required in the correct storage conditions (temperature / controlled atmosphere) and make post-harvest applications. All the equipment for controlled atmosphere studies is located on site at many of our facilities.
For further information please contact Dave Clark – dave.clark@eurofinsagro.com