Understanding pollution’s impact on environment and health is a major challenge, one that impacts our ability to meet society’s needs for conserving population, biodiversity and natural resources.
It is essential to monitor biological and environmental spheres as well as the food supply chain in order to estimate their degree of exposure to contaminants.
For organic pollutants, the emergence of non-targeted physical-chemical analysis methods has paved the way for new improvements in monitoring strategies.
These technological improvements, in particular the emergence of high-resolution mass spectrometry devices, have made it possible to improve strategies for monitoring organic pollutants, along with the implementation of non-targeted analysis methods.
But these approaches are complex to put into practice, because they seek to encompass all the diverse contaminants present in those spheres. They must ensure that information loss is kept to a minimum throughout the entire chain of analysis, from sampling to data processing.
Ineris is organizing a symposium to address these challenges on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The symposium will focus on various aspects of the field of non-targeted analysis:
• Analytic strategies and their applications;
• Data management and processing;
• Links to toxicological effects;
• Data storage and retrospective analysis;
Contribution and positioning in comparison to a targeted analysis.
The symposium is intended for technical operators who work or are interested in working on this topic, as well as anyone who wishes to learn about the value (and constraints) involved in implementing these non-targeted approaches to monitoring environmental pollutants.
Location: Ministry of Agriculture - 78 rue de Varennes - 75007 Paris
