The organizers of RAFA 2013 would like to thank to all speakers, participants and sponsors, exhibitors and media partners for their contributions to very interesting and successful conference.

RAFA 2013 in numbers

• 800 scientists participated
• 63 countries from 5 continents represented
• 105 lectures including 20% presented by young scientists’
• 565 posters presented
• 44 companies exhibited / sponsored the conference
• 9 media partners participated
• 7 poster awards
• 18 vendor seminars, 3 satellite workshops, 2 educative interactive seminars, 2 seminars by EFSA and USDA, webcast organized

Poster Awards

The RAFA 2013 award for the best poster was given to Maria-Evangelia Synaridou, Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece for the poster entitled “FABRICATION OF FUNCTIONALIZED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS IN MILK SAMPLES”.

Poster Awards sponsored by companies AB Sciex, Agilent Technologies and Shimadzu were given to:

Jérémy Ratel, INRA-UR QuaPA-MASS group, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France: DETERMINATION OF PROCESS-INDUCED TOXICANTS AND ODORANTS IN FOOD BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL GC TECHNIQUES HYPHENATED WITH OLFACTOMETRY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY

Soledad Rubio, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain: SINGLE-STEP EXTRACTION AND CLEANUP OF BISPHENOL A IN SOFT DRINKS BY HEMIMICELLAR MAGNETIC SPE PRIOR TO LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY

Soparat Yudthavorasit, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR USING ANALYTE PROTECTANT IN ROUTINE ANALYSIS

Poster Awards sponsored by CAMO Software AS company were given to:

1^st - Gaud Dervilly-Pinel, Oniris-LABERCA, Nantes, France: TOWARD NEW COMPREHENSION OF CHEESE RIPENING

2^nd - Cecilia Diaz, Fraunhofer Institute, Schmallenberg, Germany: A NEW APPROACH TO SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION IN FOOD AND FEED

3^rd - Maria Pilar Hermo Outeiral, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: METABOLIC STUDY OF ENROFLOXACIN IN CHICKEN TISSUES BY LTQ–ORBITRAP AND MULTIPLE DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES