Update of the EURL-AP Intranet database

Over the past few months we have noticed that many NRLs are not up to date with their data included in the intranet database. Some listings have not been updated for almost 10 years!

As a reminder, it is your responsibility to check and update this data as soon as your team or your (e-mail) addresses change. All exchanges (information transmitted to the network, sending of PT samples, etc.) are based on this data.

To check or update your data, it’s very simple!

  1. The person in charge of your NRL (Head of NRL) must send us an email to request the excel file of your last update.
  2. Once the data has been reviewed, the file must be returned to us.
  3. On this basis, the data available on the intranet as well as the mailing list will be updated.

If you have a contact person for the mass spectrometry at your lab, a new field has been added at the end of the file. Feel free to fill it, it is of course not compulsory.

Note that a simple e-mail with a new name or a new e-mail address is not sufficient. Use of this file is mandatory.

To check your data, you can also log into the EURL-AP intranet and go to the contact-> members page. By filtering the list by the name of your institute, you will see who is in your list and their assignments (head of NRL, NRL PCR contact, NRL PCR team…)

Last but not least: When you send an email to one of the EURL-AP team members, do not hesitate to add the address secretary@eurl.craw.eu in CC. This address does not correspond to any “secretary”. By using this address, all the members of the EURL-AP scientific team (including Olivier, Pascal, Aline, Abigaël and myself) will receive your mail and we will be able to reply to you even if one of them is not available.

Calibration kit (calibrants) for poultry detection by PCR available

The EURL-AP is pleased to announce that the ERM-AD484k POULTRY pDNA CALIBRANT is now available and can be ordered. To access to the right page of the JRC website click here Search (484k) – ERM-AD484k POULTRY pDNA CALIBRANT ” – Certified Reference Materials catalogue of the JRC (europa.eu).

You can also find a link on the EURL-AP website. Go to https://www.eurl.craw.eu/legal-sources-and-sops/method-of-reference-and-sops/. In the section “Calibration kits for ruminant, pig and poultry detection by PCR”, click on the dedicated link.

Publication of the report on the 2021 implementation study on insect PAP detection by PE/TCE sedimentation

The report related to the EURL-AP implementation study on the detection of insect PAP in feed by double sedimentation method PE/TCE followed by light microscopy identification is published. You can download it from the page “Scientific reports” under the menu “Publication”.

Over 100 new insect micrographs available !

We are glad to announce the enrichment of the EURL-AP micrograph collection by more than 110 high quality pictures from insects (H. illucens, T. molitor, A. diaperinus, G. assimilis, and A. domesticus).

Visit the animal structure section of the collection.

Important information related to EURL-AP website and internet

Removal of documents published before 2010: please read the full message for more details.

Dear NRL Colleagues,

 

We inform you that we are currently working on the EURL-AP website and the intranet.  A new technical update is required for both tools. We will also take benefits of this upgrade to transfer the micrograph collection in a revised user interface on the website. It means that the collection will eventually be openly available… Please inform on due time your national network of laboratories of this change.

 

We also notify you that we will REMOVE ALL DOCUMENTS (reports, PPT, newsletters, former PT documents,…) being edited or posted before 2010 on both the website and the intranet document library.  Legal texts are not concerned by this clean up. Therefore we invite you to go through the website and the intranet document library to download any document you would like to keep for your team before the 1st of September 2020.

 

Of course we will keep archives of all these documents which may always be sent to you on request.

 

Thank you for considering this message.

Meanwhile we wish you and your team a sunny summer break.

Publication of the grinding study report

The report related to the EURL-AP collaborative study on the effect of grinding on the detection of bones from PAPs in feed by light microscopy is published. You can download it from the page “Scientific reports” under the menu “Publication”.

Official invitation for the 10th EURL-AP Workshop 2016 – Namur, Belgium in Sept 2016

Dear NRL Colleagues,

We invite you officially to participate to the 10th EURL-AP workshop that will take place in Namur from the 20st to 22nd of September 2016. The official invitation, including the registration documents is in attachment. You are requested to return it by 1st of July the latest.

Seeing you in Belgium for the 10 years !

Pig cut-off Excel file

With the new batch of pig calibrants now commercially available, you will have to adapt the exact copy numbers to be in accordance with the certificate provided with these new calibrants.

In this “Pig cut-off at 5 copies” Excel file, the cells where you have to introduce the “exact copy numbers” are not locked and this modification is possible.

Do not forget that the figures mentioned in the certificate are copies/µl! In the cut-off Excel file, you have to introduce the number of copies/5 µl!

Calibration kits for ruminant and pig detection by PCR commercially available now

The calibration kits ERM-AD482 RUMINANT pDNA CALIBRANT and ERM-AD483 PORCINE pDNA CALIBRANT can be ordered from JRC-IRMM. They are now Certified European Reference Materials.

 For ordering and information, go to the following webpages : 

https://crm.irmm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/p/q/erm-ad482+/ERM-AD482-RUMINANT-pDNA-CALIBRANT/ERM-AD482

https://crm.irmm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/p/q/erm-AD483/ERM-AD483-PORCINE-pDNA-CALIBRANT/ERM-AD483