ISEAC39 ­- Hamburg

The Conference Series is managed by the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC) which had its beginnings in 1971 with a scientific meeting, organized to provide a forum for how analytical chemists might contribute to the recent “environmental revolution”. Now, for over 40 years, it has had a long and successful lifetime, morphing from that initial meeting into an organization that has a worldwide impact. The main event organized by the IAEAC is the International Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry (ISEAC). Since 2014 Food Analytics became integrated in ISEAC.
The program of ISEAC-39 will consist of invited lectures, oral contributions and poster sessions. Contributions span the full range of the ISEAC scope:
• The Environmental Part of the conference covers the three elements Air, Water & Soil including anthropogenic chemicals (agricultural and industrial origin, hormonal active and drug residues, human waste water), exhaust gases (indoor/outdoor emissions), fine dust and radioactivity, remediation monitoring and long term transport and distribution Regimes.
• The Food Part mainly deals with innovative and challenging strategies to maintain Food Safety & Food Fraud (authenticity). Methods for trace analysis of residues, chemical or microbial contaminants and new approaches to tackle nano and packaging materials are presented.
• One of the aims of ISEAC-38 in Lausanne 2014 was to open the discussion regarding Food Safety by leading food safety experts from Europe and overseas. We will continue this Think Tank Series and the dialogue in the 39th edition talking about Food Production in Emerging but Underdeveloped Nations with Implications on Food Safety and Environmental Issues. The Think Tank will be opened by Elke Badde, State Secretary for Health and Consumer Protection, Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection, Hamburg
• As a novelty for this conference series we have included the session “Thinking outside the box” (Wednesday, July 20th). For this session we are planning with three outstanding speakers showing the view beyond the scientific horizon. One of the speakers is Prof. Dr. Robert Huber (Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 1988) talking about New Ways of Vision: Beauty and Fitness for Purpose of Proteins. Our second outstanding headliner is Prof. Dr. Tom Soh from Stanford University, USA. He will give a keynote lecture about Real-Time Detection of Biomolecules in Complex Environments. Last but not least Prof. Dr. Christoph Kutter (Director Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, Munich) will close this session with ideas about The Internet of Things.

The meeting will include lectures, poster sessions and an exhibition and accordingly provide for ample possibilities for the distribution of knowledge on latest developments in analytical methods for environmental and food analysis, for the setup of research platforms in an interdisciplinary context for tackling challenges and for initiating new collaborations for research and regulatory measures on a global scale.

The current version, ISEAC39, is hosted by the HAMBURG SCHOOL OF FOOD SCIENCE (Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, Director)