15 th Nordic Pesticide Residue Workshop (NPRW) will be held in Finland May 20- 22 2025
Main topics
- Pesticide residues in food and environment
- Current issues in residue monitoring
- Monitoring and Risk Assessment
- Risk communication
- Analytical techniques
- Robotic methods
- New method developments
- Analytical challenges
- Quality control and method validation
- Residues in organic products
Scientific Committee
- Denmark : Mette Erecius Poulsen, Søren Johannesen and Elena Hakme
- Estonia: Merike Toome and Ylle Pyy
- Finland: Carola Ranta and Arja Heinonen
- Iceland: Eydís Ylfa Erlendsdóttir
- Norway : Randi Bolli and Ingunn H.G. Monsaas
- Sweden : Marie Aune and Anders Johansson
Programme
The workshop will take place at the Conference Center located in the Government building in Pasila . The address is Opastinsilta 12, Helsinki
Tuesday 20 May
14:00-17:00 Nordic Coordination Meeting - only for invited authorities
The Nordic Coordination Meeting will be held at Customs facilities, 2nd Floor, Government Building
18:00 NPRW Get together dinner
Restaurant Rauhanasema (Veturintori 3, 00520 Helsinki - Yellow old wooden railway station)
Wednesday 21 May (Pasila library, 2nd floor, Kellosilta 9)
9:00 Welcome Presentation
9.20 Barbara Kiedrowska, Wageningen Food Safety Research, Netherlands
Strategies and analytical challenges in the analysis of large volumes of import control samples
10:00 Mette Erecius Poulsen, DTU, Denmark
News from EURL
10:20 Coffee break (Government building, 2 nd floor)
10:50 Roman Florinski, NIBIO, Norway
Determination of copper in food products with ICP-OES
11:10 Vendor Session, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Jeff Stubbs
An Integrated GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS Workflow for Quantitative Analysis of Pesticides with Cross-confirmation using a Single Chromatography Data System Software
11:25 Michal Krol, Institute of Plant Protection, Poland
Validation of the multi-residue LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS methods for determining pesticide residues in high fat content matrices
11:45 Vendor Session, Agilent, Juho Salonen
Advancements in LCMS for Comprehensive Pesticide Detection
12:00 Lunch (Vire, Government building, 2nd floor)
13:00 Kati Räsänen, LUKE, Finland
Integrated Pesticide Management and pesticide use
13:20 Carey Donald, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Pesticides residues in fish, fish feed, and fish feed ingredients: trends in screening and quantitative results
13:40 Rintamäki Ella, University of Helsinki, Finland
Atrazine Contamination Dynamics and Depletion in Laune Aquifer
14:00 Suni Mathew, University of Turku, Finland
Glyphosate
14:20 Vendor Session, Phenomenex
14:35 Coffee break (Government building, 2nd floor)
15:05 Torbjörn Synnerdahl, Eurofins, Sweden
“PFAS pesticides” and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)
15:40 Hanna-Kaisa Lakka, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
We have a long way to go if we want to realise the promise of the“Reduce pesticide and chemical toxins to levels that are not harmful to Biodiversity”
16:00 Benjamin Fuchs, Aarhus University, Denmark
Persistent Herbicide Residues: Safety Regulation of Aminopyralid and Clopyralid Contamination in Organic Fertilizers
18:30 Workshop dinner (Restaurant Freddes, Fredikanterassi 1, 00520 Helsinki)
Thursday 22 May (whole day in the Government building)
9:00 Kirsten H. Lund, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Denmark
Implementing Dithianon in the analysis for Organotin pesticides
9:20 Anu Vaikkinen, Finnish Customs Laboratory, Finland
Analytical challenges in determining matrine in liquorice
9:40 Julio Cesar Espana Amortegui, DTU, Denmark
Assessing practical strategies for targeted and non-targeted acquisition modes for pesticide residue analysis by LC-HRMS
10:00 Vendor Session, Waters
10:15 Coffee break
10:35 Vendor Session, Sciex
10:50 Ederina Ninga, DTU, Denmark
Challenges and Advances in Alpha-Cypermethrin Analyses
11:10 Anne Relander, Finnish Food Authority, Finland
Pesticide residues in bio-based fertilizer products
11:40 Michal Krol, Institute of Plant Protection, Poland
Pesticide residues in organic products of plant origin
12:00 Lunch
14:30 Bus to ECHA from Asemapäällikönkatu
15.30-17 ECHA Visit (Passport or other ID required, driver's license is not preferred)
Accommodation, Transportation and Social Programme
Hotels
We kindly ask you to arrange your own accommodation. Hotel Valo is a nice hotel with excellent public transportation connections to Pasila. By using accomodation code "PROEVENT" and to the comment field “TUKES” you get 15% off the daily price.
There are also some hotels located in Helsinki city center also excellent connections to Pasila (and to airport)
- Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Helsinki
- Radisson RED Helsinki Radisson RED Helsinki
- Scandic Kaisaniemi Scandic Kaisaniemi | Helsinki | Scandic Hotels
- Hotel Arthur Hotel Arthur
How to get to the venue
The workshop will take place at the Conference Center located in the in Government building in Pasila.The address is Opastinsilta 12, Helsinki.
You can take a direct train from Helsinki Airport to Pasila. The airport train station is located under the terminal, with easy access via an elevator and escalators from both the departures and arrivals halls.
Local I and P trains run between Helsinki Airport and Pasila, with the journey taking approximately 30 minutes. Tickets can be purchased via the HSL mobile app or from the ticket machines located at the train platform. Timetables, tickets and fares for local trains can be found on and fares for local trains can be found on HSL website.
Social Programme
Get-together Dinner
The get-together dinner will take place on Tuesday 20 May, 18:00 at Rauhanasema, located next to the Conference Center. The address is Veturintori 3, 00520 Helsinki.
Workshop dinner
The workshop dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, 21 May, at 18:00 at Restaurant Restaurant Freddes. The The address is Fredikanterassi, 00520 Helsinki.
Locations:
Blue pin - Pasila railway station. If you arrive by train, take first escalator up from the platform, and then turn left. The bridge to Government building starts between small K-market and R-kioski.
Yellow pin - Government building Opastinsilta 12
Green pin - Pasila library
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