Prof. Dr. Carmen Cámara attended, as invited speaker, to the Second Conference on Foods Laboratories (Hospital Clínico San Carlos. Madrid, March 14-16, 2007), where she made a presentation on the relevant role of Selenium on mitigating the toxicity of methyl mercury. The presentation had a strong acceptation by the audience and several laboratories, including the on depending on the Ayuntamiento de Madrid, expressed their interested in these studies.

Prof. Dr. Carmen Cámara has also been invited to the Symposium on Selenium-Mercury Interaction, (La Jolla, California, February, 24-24, 2007), where she made a presentation on the Levels of selenium and mercury in sea-food. This meeting was organized by “The International Association of Bioinorganic Scientists” .The topic of her talk attracted a lot of interest because of the high mercury contents found in many seafood and the strong economic impact of this fact.

The group of the University of Alcalá, led by Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Marina Alegre, developed and patented a procedure for the determination of soya-proteins in pig meat products treated with heat. The method involved the extraction of lipids with acetone, the solubilisation of proteins in a buffer and their subsequent analysis by reverse phase perfusion HPLC.
This new method represents a valuable alternative to ELISA because of its analytical performance, fats response and low cost. Furthermore, it is easy to implement in the industry because of the simplicity of the required instrumentation which make it adequate for routine quality control at levels below those set in current legislations.