SOFT - TIAFT 1998 October 5-9, 1998 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

During the SOFT-TIAFT meeting, the Young Scientists meet during 3 hours. Young collegues were first invited to share a dinner-buffet, that was sponsored by Ansys. Then, about 100 people exchanged ideas on how to improve their daily work. Three subjects were mainly discussed, 1. the preparation of the samples (particularly the use of solid phase extraction), 2. unusual poisoning, such as with lead, and 3. the place of Internet and the use of the on-line reviews. Storage of specimens was also discussed. This was a nice meeting, that gave us the opportunities to discuss with toxicologists coming from 17 different countries. The Young Scientists Committee, represented by Rebeca Jufer (USA), Fiona Couper (Australia), Aldo Polettini (Italy), Alain Verstraete (Belgium) and Pascal Kintz (France) was supported by 4 commercial companies (Lipomed, Roche Diagnostic, Radian and Dade Behring) to present the 1998 awards. Five (only five!) papers were submitted to the committee for the best publication during the previous year. During the meeting, 13 posters and 14 oral presentations were evaluated by the committee. The winners are: best publication during the previous year: Yvan Gaillard (Paris, France) with his paper on "Detection of Illegal Clenbuterol Use in Calves Using Hair Analysis", that was published in Journal of Chromatography B, 1997, 703, 85-95. best oral presentation: Detlef Thieme (Kreischa, Germany) with the title "Proof of Steroid Abuse by Detection of Testosterone Esters in Hair". best poster: Gary Kunsman (San Antonio, USA) with the title "The Effect of Consumption of Hempenale on Urine Cannabinoid Screens". Congratulations to the winners and thank you so much to the sponsors. The next meeting is planed in Cracow. I encourage you to attend Poland and to send me the papers that were published in 1998 by a young toxicologist (under 40 years), with a co-author member of TIAFT. Pascal Kintz Institut de Médecine Légale 11 rue Humann F-67000 Strasbourg, France

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