Robert Trelka

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Robert Trelka

• Laboratory Technician
• Healthy Products and Food Branch
• Health Canada

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Graduating Class 2001
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Red River Co-op Experience

• First Co-op work experience Manitoba Hydro,
  East Selkirk
• Boiler chemistry
• Oil sample analysis
• Moisture analysis on Coal
• Ash content testing

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Red River Co-op Experience

• Second Co-op work experience Health Canada,
  Food Laboratory
• Ochratoxin A (OTA) in Raisins
• OTA is a mycotoxin. A mycotoxin is a toxin
  produced from mould or fungi
• The concerns with mycotoxins in humans
  carcinogenic, neurotoxic, nephrotoxic,
  immunotoxic, teratogenic

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How Did I Get There?

• Student Co-op began February 19, 2001 July 31,
  2001
• Was extended until November 30, 2001
• Offered a term position November 5, 2001 March
  28, 2003
• February 5, 2002 became an indeterminate employee
  through the F.S.W.E.P.

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510 Lagimodiere Blvd
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Lab Staff 510 Lagimodiere
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Sample Preparation
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Sample Extraction/Clean up
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Sample Analysis
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Sample Analysis
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Current Work Being Done at Health Canada 2004/2005

• Chemical Residues
• N-methyl carbamate (pesticides)-Total diet study
• Acrylamide Breakfast cereals and Coffee
  substitutes
• Furans Infant Foods
• Organic and Inorganic contaminants in fish
  (organophosphorus, pyrethroids and pyrethrins)
• Naturally occurring toxins
• Ochratoxin A, Zearalenone and fumonisins in soy
  and milk based infant formula
• Trans Fatty Acids Infant Foods
• Ochratoxin A in Bovine milk
• Microcystins in fish from Lake Winnipeg
• Mycrotoxins in Botanical Natural Health Products
  (ie. Chamomile, cranberry, milk thistle, ginger)
• Method development for analysis of Deoxynivalenol
  in soft wheat

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Work Done In The Past At Health Canada

• THC content In Hemp Based Food Products
• Multiple toxin analysis of infant and breakfast
  cereals
• Ochratoxin A in coffee and dried fruits
• Carbamates in apple and grape juices
• Patulin in fruit juices and beverages
• Ergot Alkaloids in cereal foods and bread

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Any questions or for more information

• E-mail Robert_Trelka_at_hc.sc-gc.ca
• Work phone number 983-5490