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it? Where to look for niche harborage issues? AMI and 3-A Sanitary Design but need for other processes too (Rocelle) Bakery has BISC per Don Lane. Dairy and Meat have their standard, but how do you clean and sanitize those that were built incorrectly and how do provide for validation of effective cleaning and sanitation. • NSF, 3-A standards and other sanitary guidelines are in place. Challenges. It may be cleanable, but is it easily cleanable? Focus on the design that it is easily cleanable. Retrofitted equipment is the main issue. Many people that purchase the equipment are purchasing off of price and not necessarily off of sanitary design. This could be a topic for a symposium. • Lee-Ann Jaykus, Board Liasion, introduced herself and shared that IAFP wants to help support the PDG. She encouraged the group to submit papers to Food Protection Trends for publication. She stated that if we can sell that the workshop can be well attended to the Committee it could be very successful. Dale shared the recent materials worked on by the PDG for a 2 day workshop. We need to develop a convincing workshop to get the Program Committee to approve the workshop. • We need to define the audience. • Tools must be defined and do a GAP analysis. The workshop would be used to open up dialog with the many different groups. What records would be adequate to prevent a recall to demonstrate an effective break. • Possible Topics – New Equipment and Facility – Old Equipment Designs and Facilities changes to make more easily cleanable (work on some success stories) and Validation of the SSOPs (proper sampling plan and what is statistically significant). • General awareness of what we must be mindful of Past Experiences. Food Safety focus since sanitation. • Meet at 5:00 p.m. Monday at registration desk to complete the materials for submission. • Several attendees stayed after the meeting adjourned to work on the straw man for this Workshop. visitors Present: Nancy Acosta, Eric Martin and Molly Mills. Board liaisons Present: Lee-Ann Jaykus and Isabel Walls. Meeting Called to Order: 2:00 p.m. recording Secretary of Minutes: Caroline Smith DeWaal. Old Business: The Committee discussed the Food Law symposium at IAFP 2008 on Comparative International Approaches to Regulating Unsafe Food. It also discussed the Elements of Food Law workshop topic that was proposed at the last meeting of the committee in July 2007, but not acted on by the PDG and never formally submitted to IAFP. new Business: The Committee discussed the possible formation of an International Food Protection Issues PDG and agreed that it would be best to work closely or incorporate portions of that work in the Food Law PDG. Review of the mission statement of the PDG showed that international law was clearly contemplated in the formation of the Food Law PDG. A number of proposals for workshops, symposia and roundtables for the next IAFP conference were discussed, and the committee agreed to move three forward: 1. Roundtable on Building a Modern Food Safety Framework for Non-Meat (FDA-Regulated) Food Products: This roundtable will discuss new legislative proposals for improving food regulation at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and include a perspective from a country or region that has recently updated its food regulatory system. 2. Symposium on International Drivers for Food Regulation (This is the second in a series of topics proposed for comparative review by the Food Law PDG): This Symposium will include perspectives from both importing and exporting countries on how food safety laws could be harmonized to work more effectively. 3. Workshop on Food Law, including issues related to Food Labeling and Health Claims: This two-day workshop is proposed to discuss labeling and health claim issues. Many members must deal with such issues in addition to food safety in their jobs, and it is felt this topic would attract participants who would appreciate this supplemental information presented at IAFP. The Food Law PDG will work together with the Applied Laboratory Methods PDG to develop a symposium that will include legal aspects associated with sampling and sampling plans. recommendations to executive Board: 1. 2. 3. The membership recommends appointment of Caroline Smith DeWaal as Vice Chair 2008–09 to assume the Chair position at the 2009 meeting. The membership recommends the appointment of Jenny Scott as Vice Chair of the Food Law PDG in 2009. The membership also recommends that these be two-year appointments. 3. recommendations to executive Board: None. next Meeting Date: July 11, 2009. Meeting Adjourned: 2:00 p.m. Chairperson: Dale Grinstead. Food law PDG Members Present: Gary Ades, John Allan, LeAnn Chuboff, Vanessa Cranford, Ginny Edleman, Craig Harris, Gordon Hayburn, Anna Lammerding, Deon Mahoney, Kenneth Malone, Thomas Schwarz, Jenny Scott, Caroline Smith DeWaal and Jolyda Swaim. new Members Present: DeAnn Benesh, Emilio Esteban, Wendy Franco, Bobby Krishna, Nandini Natrajan, Khalid Sharif, Gloria Swick-Brown, Pamela Wilger, Christine Wilson and Bashir Yousif. next Meeting Date: July 12, 2009. Meeting Adjourned: 3:10 p.m. Chairperson: Anna Lammerding. 848 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | NOVEMBER 2008

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