Hank Grieco reports from New Jersey.
The Eastern Analytical Conference celebrated its 50th consecutive conference this year at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey from November 14th to 17th. Attendance was slightly lower than last year, primarily due to the economy, with 2766 attending. There were over 160 booths with over 650 exhibit personnel present to handle the over 2000 that came to the conference. As with last year the full conferees outnumbered the exhibit only attendees by a three to one margin, indication again that more people attend the conference to sit in on one or more of the 600 plus papers and poster sessions.
Two day classes included session on “Practical Gas Chromatography” and “Troubleshooting Chromatagraphic Systems. There were also almost 40 one day sessions on various analytical topics including one on “Fundamentals of Gas Chromatography for New Analysts and Non-Chemists,” given by presenters from Virginia Tech., and Seton Hall University. Individual papers and posters were give by companies familiar to our readers such as Air Liquide, Agilent Technologies, Restek, US Pharmacopeia, Perkin Elmer, OI Analytical, Supelco/Sigma Aldrich, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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