LC-MS User Meeting 2020 - Environmental & Food Safety - Plenary Session

In food and environmental analysis, the availability of sensitive, fast and reliable methods is a key requirement. Accordingly, mass spectrometry has become a widely adopted technology. Still, the number and range of compounds to be analyzed has risen steadily in the course of the years and the required limits of detection are lowered regularly by the responsible authorities, increasing the demand for technology that is even more sensitive, but also robust and easy to use in order to provide analytical results in a fast and cost efficient manner.

In the session for environmental and food safety analysis we present solutions for a wide variety of applications, as there is the analysis of very polar compounds or perflourinated surfactants and flame retardants. Also, the demands of the new water framework directive and how the new minimum residue levels can be reached are discussed. The use of different chromatographic technologies and the benefits of high-resolution mass spectrometry are discussed from the perspective of routine and research users, accompanied by additional insights given by our experts.

9:00 BST (10:00 CEST - Prague) | Plenary 1 | Your fast-track to confident results in food and environmental/ pharma and biopharma: Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris product family expanded

• Speaker: Thomas Moehring, Sr Director Marketing LSMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:30 BST (10:30 CEST - Prague) | Plenary 2 | Application of Orbitrap Technology to Food Safety

• Speaker: Jim Garvey, Head of Food Chemistry, DAFM Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - Kildare, Ireland

Presenter: Thomas Moehring (Sr Director Marketing LSMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Dr. Thomas Moehring studied Chemistry and Environmental Science at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, and completed his Ph.D. project at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Marine Environment (ICBM) Oldenburg, Germany.

He then became the Team Leader Peptidomics technology at BioVisioN (Hannover, Germany). In 2004 he joined Thermo Fisher Scientific as application/demo chemist, followed by various roles in Product Management.

Thomas is currently leading global Product Management efforts for Life Science Mass Spectrometry as Senior Director of Hardware Platform Management.

Presenter: Jim Garvey (Head of Food Chemistry, DAFM Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - Kildare, Ireland)

Graduated from The National University of Ireland (Galway) in 1988 with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. From there I spent seven years in the pharmaceutical industry as a Research Chemist. Left there to become the process development manager in a company producing high purity solvents for GC, HPLC and MS. I joined the Pesticide Control Laboratory in 1999 and led the laboratory to become the first laboratory in Ireland to be accredited to ISO17025 and the first Department of Agriculture Laboratory to be accredited to any standard. Led the laboratory through the dioxin crisis of 2008. Since then I have overseen many phases of the development of the laboratory and I am currently managing the introduction of HRAM technology to the residues laboratory. In October 2019 I was appointed Head of Food Chemistry at the department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As well as pesticides the Food Chemistry division also covers veterinary drugs, compositional analysis of dairy products, contaminants and elemental analysis.

On the Formulations side I have managed the re-establishment of a Formulations laboratory in Ireland in 2005. As part of this work we have established methodologies for profiling pesticide products and used these profile for the detection of illegal and counterfeit pesticide formulated products

I am currently a full member of CIPAC and a member of the CIPAC management committee. And I am currently one of the editors of the CIPAC handbooks, the latest published handbook being Handbook O.