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Welcome to the November issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter!
An important exposure route to toxic metal(loid) species for humans is their diet. Environmental pollution is an important cause for the contamination of food sources. Sometimes human activities have an indirect impact on the contamination level of pollutants. American scientists have now investigated the impact of hydroelectric power projects on the dietary exposure of humans to methylmercury by consuming local fish and game (see the news below).
Beside mercury, arsenic is another food contaminant. Inorganic arsenic and some organic arsenic species are toxic and may cause bladder and lung cancer. While most often contamination of food by arsenic is related to environmental pollution or geochemical sources, the use of drugs or feed additives may also lead to contamination. Organic arsenic compounds such as Roxarsone and Nitarsone have been used as drugs in the poultry industry in the US for decades until 2015, when FDA retracted their approval. Two new studies now investigated the exposure of humans to toxic arsenic species resulting from the use of these drugs (see the news below).
Their results show that consumers of poultry meat were exposed to toxic arsenic species that probably have created unnecessary health hazards. While the use of these drugs has been terminated in the US, they are still used in other countries such as China.
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NEWS
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EVISA is keeping you updated with what is going on in speciation analysis. In this section you will find news about the most current research results, about trends, legal issues and informations from manufacturers in the field of speciation analysis.
With all the links to further information and publications the News archive is a valuable collection of "hot topics" in speciation analysis. We continuously update even former news with new links and information so that all news are actual all the time.
Enhanced level of toxic methylmercury in the aquatic environment caused by hydroelectric dams
U.S. researchers have now for the first time modeled exposure to methylmercury for humans making use of local food sources impacted by hydroelectric dams.
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Arsenic exposure from Poultry Meat produced in the US before 2015
Two new studies show that the use of arsenic drugs in the US poultry industry has resulted in additional exposure of consumers to toxic arsenic species enhancing their cancer risk.
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EVENTS
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a list of about 50 current entries EVISA is informing you about
interesting events and keeps you updated with their deadlines. By
consulting our list of deadlines you won't miss the opportunity for
early registration at reduced fee or the chance to submit your
contribution in time.
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ICBTECE 2017: 19th International Conference on Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements and Chemical Engineering
Date: January 13,2017 - January 14,2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
October 15,2016 Submission of abstracts
December 13,2016 Early registration at reduced fee
14th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry
Date: April 2,2017 - April 7,2017
Location: Hotel Senac Ilha do Boi, in the city of Vitória, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil
November 18,2016 Submission of abstracts
December 2,2016 Early registration at reduced fee
December 23,2016 Notification of acceptance
ICMGP 2017: 13th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant
Date: July 16,2017 - July 21,2017
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
December 15,2016 Submission of abstracts
April 15,2017 Notification of acceptance
May 31,2017 Early registration at reduced fee
Please do not hesitate to inform us in case that your conference related to speciation analysis is missing in our Agenda.
XXIth Slovak - Czech Spectroscopic Conference
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The Low Tatras - Liptovský Ján, Slovakia
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16.10.2016 - 20.10.2016
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AsBIC8: 8th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
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Auckland, New Zealand
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04.12.2016 - 09.12.2016
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7th NRW Nano-Conference
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Münster, Germany
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07.12.2016 - 08.12.2016
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ICBTECE 2017: 19th International Conference on Biogeochemistry, Trace Elements and Chemical Engineering
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Zurich, Switzerland
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13.01.2017 - 14.01.2017
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COST Action ES1205: Engineered nanomaterials from wastewater treatment & stormwatEr to Rivers
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Aveiro, Portugal
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07.02.2017 - 08.02.2017
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EWCPS 2017: European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
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Sankt Anton, Austria
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19.02.2017 - 24.02.2017
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VACANCIES
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EVISA provides information about open positions for Ph.D. students, PostDocs and permanent staff in the field of speciation. Looking to fill a vacancy or needing a new career challenge? Either way this service is FREE. Many laboratories and research facilities (from Greenland to Crete) have already found their highly educated stuff through this service by EVISA. If you would like to post an open position here, please contact us at info@speciation.net !
Doctorates
Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG): Diplom-/Masterarbeit: Entwicklung von speziesanalytischen Methoden zum Nachweis und Untersuchung von metallbasierten Antifouling Bioziden in aquatischen Matrizes
Ziel der ausgeschriebenen Diplom-/Masterarbeit (Chemie, Umweltwissenschaften und verwandten Studiengängen) ist die Entwicklung komplementärer speziesanalytischer Methoden zur Identifizierung und Quantifizierung relevanter metallbasierter Biozide und Spezies der Verbindungen in aquatischen Matrizes.
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SCK-CEN Belgium: Development and validation of HPLC-SF-ICP-MS methodologies for characterization of spent nuclear fuel
The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) recently opened its call for PhD and post-doc positions (2016 campaign). Two challenging research topics on SF-ICP-MS method development are offered for this purpose by the Radiochemistry expert group.
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Postdoctoral
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Nestlé: Trainee
Nestlé Research Center is currently and urgently looking for a trainee for a period of 6 months starting in February 2017.
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National Research Council Canada: Research Associate, Analytical Chemistry
We are looking to fill one or more Research Associate (RA) positions to support our Measurement Science and Standards Portfolio. The RA would be someone who shares our core values of impact, accountability, leadership, integrity and collaboration.
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DIRECTORY
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EVISA's directory of scientist is a versatile tool to facilitate contact with scientists in the field of speciation and related sciences. The directory is fully searchable for names, addresses, research topics etc. You should bookmark this directory as an always up-to-date address book. (In order to hinder SPAM robots for collecting the E-mail accounts, we hide them in a special format).
More than 280 active scientists in the field of speciation analysis already joined the directory. Join this great directory that is extensively linked to all type of other information on this site, such as homepages, conferences and literature.
If your entry is still missing in this directory, please contact us at info@speciation.net.
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LINKS
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EVISA provides an easy access to external information. Our database contains more than 2750 links to relevant information from numerous top scientific resources spread over the whole Web. The database is searchable both via full-text and categories such as elements, type of species and type of information. We are permanently updating our links section.
If your web site is missing here, please e-mail your link information to info@speciation.net.
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