Food and Environmental Protection Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 2, July 2019

Over the past six months, the Food and Environmental Protection (FEP) Sub-programme has been busy with coordinated research projects, technical support to national, regional and interregional technical cooperation projects (TCPs); the organization of workshops and training courses; participation in international conferences and meetings; as well as R&D activities at the Food and Environmental Protection Laboratory (FEPL). Currently the Sub-programme implements five Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs) in which two research coordination meetings (RCMs) were held in the first half of this year. Detailed reports of each RCM are included in this newsletter. Briefly, the first RCM of the new CRP D52042, on food authenticity, was held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. It involved experts from 16 countries working together to refine methods to apply nuclear-derived techniques to test for accuracy in food labels. The second RCM of the CRP D52041, on integrated radiometric and complementary techniques for mixed contaminants and residues in foods, was held in Gaborone, Botswana and is the subject of this newsletter's feature article.