TIAFT Events

This page presents you information about TIAFT and other meetings in the field of toxicology or allied areas. If you wish to advertise about meetings don't listed here, please write to info@tiaft.org a message reporting name, location, dates of the Meeting and any further information you think useful. These information will be published here as soon as possible.

 

 

TIAFT Regional Meetings

• 4th South American Regional Meeting TIAFT
  3rd Latinamerican Conference on Chemistry Related Accidents
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
  November 3rd to 7th, 2008
  
  Dear colleagues,
  
  The International Asociation of Forensic Toxicologists, TIAFT, has requested us, during the meeting that took place in Santiago de Chile in 2006, to prepare the 4º South American Regional Meeting TIAFT in Buenos Aires this year, since we will also be celebrating the hundredth aniversary of the creation of our Judicial Morgue.
  
  As Tiaft Regional Representative, it is mine the honor and the arduous task to preside this event and this is why, with the support of Dr. Luis Alberto Ferrari (also TIAFT Regional Representative), the Asociación Argentina de Farmacia y Bioquímica Legal (TIAFT member), the Asociación Médica Argentina (where the meeting will take place at its headquarters located in Av. Santa Fe 1171) and CIQUIME, Centro de Información Química para Emergencias, we have scheduled together with the mentioned event the "III CONFERENCIA LATINOAMERICANA SOBRE ACCIDENTES QUIMICOS" (3rd Latinamerican Conference on Chemical Related Accidents) for November 3rd to 7th, 2008.
  
  We are very pleased to invite all TIAFT members' worldwide colleagues, to participate in this meeting and enjoy Buenos Aires, tango music and dancing and its barbeques.
  
  Best regards,
  Dr. Oscar Alberto Locani
  TIAFT Regional Representative
  
  For more information please visit the meeting web site: TIAFT Buenos Aires
  or contact us at: consultas@tiaftbuenosaires.org and tiaftbuenosaires08@gmail.com
   

 

Under the Auspices of TIAFT

• Forensic Toxicology Day
  Marseille, France
  October 7th, 2008
  Hotel Mercure Eurocentre
  
  Under the auspices of the TIAFT, a day dedicated to forensic toxicology will be organised as part of the XVIIIth International Mediterranean Day of Forensic Medicine which will take place in Marseille from the 6th to the 8th of October 2008. The day will include a session entitled "Important Analytical Strategies in Forensic Toxicology", as well as a session on "Open Themes". We hope that this day will be an opportunity to share our professional experiences while basking in the Mediterranean sun.
  
  Dates to Remember
  15th June: closing date for sending abstracts
  1st July: selection of the abstracts
  1st September: closing date for sending completed texts
  25th September: closing date for registrations
  
  Organising Committee
  President: Pr. G. LEONETTI
  Pr. F. CIANFARANI, Dr. C. BARTOLI, Dr. M.-A. CHRISTIA-LOTTER, Dr G. GAVAUDAN, Mme D GIOCANTI, Dr A.-L. PELISSIER-ALICOT, Dr M.-D. PIERCECCHI-MARTI
  
  General Information & Registration
  For more information please contact: apelissier@ap-hm.fr or
  you can download this document (.doc - Microsoft Word) containing general information about the conference, hotel booking and the registration form.
  
  High points of the region
  Mediterranean coastline. The sun obviously contributes to a very agreeable lifestyle along with the famous 'Mistral' wind which clears the skies and bestows a special luminosity upon the region which has attracted painters such as Cézanne, Braque, Dufy and Derain. Here, leisure activities can be practised all year round, with 40% of the region being public land surrounded by the sea - a top attraction for diving, fishing, sailing and climbing. Marseille's activities remain firmly rooted in its traditions and culture, all of which are represented throughout the cities museums, its 25 theatres, its Opera and its International School of Dance and the National Ballet. To really discover its baroque beauty and absorb everything Marseille has to offer one must leave the city centre because every district (and there are more than one hundred) has a distinct flavour of a Provençal village. Having climbed up to visit Notre Dame de la Garde, guardian of the sailors and sitting 162m above the sea, one can follow in the footsteps of Cézanne and pay a visit to l'Estaque or go to la Treille in foothills of Pagnol territory. Marseille can also be discovered from the sea with the Isles of Frioul and Chateau d'If giving a different and very beautiful view of the Phocaean City.
  Useful links: Marseille Tourisme - MarseilleNet - Decouvrir Marseille
   

 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM PAST TIAFT EVENTS
 

Seattle 2007	Ljubljana 2006	Seoul 2005	Washington 2004
Melbourne 2003	Paris 2002	Prague 2001	Helsinki 2000
Cracow 1999	Albuquerque 1998		Padova 1997

 

International meeting reports

• 14th National Meeting of GIFT (Group of Italian Forensic Toxicologists)
  Florence, Italy
  November 23rd - 25th
  Palazzo Vecchio (the City Hall)
  
  The 14th National Meeting of GIFT (Group of Italian Forensic Toxicologists) was held in Florence between November 23rd and 25th, 2007. The meeting, superbly organised by the local forensic toxicologists Francesco Mari and Elisabetta Bertol, was dedicated to the theme of quality in analytical forensic toxicology. The opening ceremony, held in the 14th century Palazzo Vecchio (the City Hall) was enhanced by invited lectures of Hans Maurer (Quality principles, concepts, guidelines in forensic toxicology), Steven Karch (To test and what not to test, that is the question). Picking the best specimen), and Marcello Chiarotti (Peer-review accreditation, investigation and promotion of excellence). During the meeting, different forensic toxicology key issues were discussed, including markers of chronic alcohol abuse, general unknown search and other applications of high resolution mass spectrometry, saliva and hair testing, method validation, carbon monoxide determination in the victims of terrorist attacks. The renewal of the executive committee was the main item in the agenda of the business meeting: Elisabetta Bertol was elected as the new GIFT president, while Aldo Polettini was nominated deputy president. During the final banquet, held on the Brunelleschi Terrace of Grand Hotel Baglioni, meeting attendants were charmed with delicious Tuscan food and Chianti while watching a breathtaking view over Florence. The meeting was unanimously recognized as a huge success both in terms of scientific contents and attendance, with 95 participants from the whole country. It was also an occasion to reinforce Italian participation in TIAFT, with 24 new applications for membership.
  
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Other meetings

• IEEFNC 2009
  The International Equipment Exhibition & Technical Seminar of Forensic Science, Narcotics Control and Counter Terrorism
  May 20-22, 2009
  National Agricultural Exhibition Center
  Beijing, CHINA
  
  This biannual grant event is approved by the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the two highest and very important governmental bodies governing the above-mentioned issues in China. Four functioning bureaus in the Ministry of Public Security, namely Bureau of Equipment & Finance, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Bureau of Counter Terrorism and Bureau of Narcotics Control co-sponsor this event, which is organized and managed by the Institute of Forensic Science under the Ministry of Public Security and Forensic Science Association of China in the odd year.
  This event is one of the only two professional trade exhibitions approved and supported by the Ministry of Public Security of China. Another exhibition is entitled "China International exhibition on Police Technologies and Equipment", which is biannually held in the even year.
  
  For further information please refer to:
  Contact: Annie Liu
  Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security
  Tel: 0086-10-88075538/60260484
  Mobile: 0086-13641294589
  Fax: 0086-10-60260579
  e-mail: liuxiaodong@ccpit.org or annielzy@yahoo.com.cn
  web site: www.ieefnc.com.