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Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG Members Present: Daniel McElroy, Timothy Freier, Margaret Burton, Dennis Burson, Roger Cook, Catherine Cutter, Kathleen Glass, Margaret Hardin, John Hudson, Randy Huffman, Ian Jenson, Robin Kalinowski, John Marcy, Omar Oyarzabal, Marin Pavlic, Pete Snyder, Mark Pratt, S. Balamurugan and Patricia Wester. new Members Present: Jeff Berresford, Alex Josowitz, Divya Jaroni, Frank Burns, Craig Henry, Pamela Wilger, Fred Reimers, Nandini Natrajan, Kathleen O’Donnell, David Velasquez, Yale Lary, Houssam Elmenini and Barbara Masters. visitors Present: Eric Willingham, Judy Lee and Brita Ball. Board liaison Present: Stan Bailey. Meeting Called to Order: 2:00 p.m. recording Secretary of Minutes: Tim Freier. Old Business: The antitrust statement was read. new Business: Stan Bailey welcomed everyone and told the group about the late-breaking session that will occur on Wednesday morning concerning the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. He also encouraged the PDG to consider submitting articles to Food Protection Trends, and that IAFP is considering making this an on-line journal which would save $100,000 per year. Symposium suggestions for 2009 IAFP: Nandini Natrajan and Pamela Wilger from the Applied Laboratory Methods PDG requested that the Meat and Poultry PDG consider sponsoring a symposium jointly covering non-O157:H7 STECs. The topics and potential speakers were discussed and it was agreed to submit this symposium, with Tim Freier agreeing to be an organizer. Margaret Harding suggested a symposium on integrated pathogen control strategies for poultry. It would cover onfarm interventions, strain typing, the new young chicken baseline and other topics. Craig Henry suggested that the symposium also include the new regulatory implications of USDA having more presence on-farm. The committee agreed to propose this symposium with Margaret and John Marcy serving as organizers. Craig Henry suggested a symposium on carcass irradiation. The committee felt that this would be a good topic for a short symposium, discussing irradiation, consumer acceptance, trade implications, etc. Craig and Randy Huffman will serve as organizers. Kathy Glass reopened the discussion on Food Protection Trends ideas. Pete Snyder suggested that retail people need very basic review articles explaining the risks of the various products that they handle, and a simple outline of what they need to do. Dan McElroy agreed to work with Pete and other members to work on this review. recommendations to executive Board: 1. The committee recommends that the aforementioned symposia be considered. next Meeting Date: July 12, 2009. Meeting Adjourned: 3:05 p.m. Chairperson: Dan McElroy. Microbial Modelling and risk Analysis PDG Members Present: Mickey Parish, Leon Gorris, John Bassett, Peter Ben Embarek, Yuhuan Chen, Roger Cook, Michelle Danyluk, Angelo DePaola, Jeffrey Farber, Andrew Hudson, Kenneth Janes, Ian Jenson, Vijay Juneja, Fumiko Kasuga, Deon Mahoney, Kenneth Malone, Joseph Meyer, Deog-Hwan Oh, Tom Ross, Jenny Scott, John Sofos, Agnes Tan, Ewen Todd and Richard Whiting. new Members: George Nychas, Kostas Koutsoumanis, Panos Skandamis, Cindy Stewart, Jeanne-Marie Membre, Suresh Pillai, Divya Jaroni, Akio Kitahara, Bob Young, Ann Draughon, Jeyamkondan Subbiah, Harshavardhan Thippareddi and Irit Weiser. Meeting Called to Order: 12:06 p.m. recording Secretary of Minutes: M. Parish. Old Business: 1. 2. Attendees introduced themselves. A motion was passed to accept and adopt the Microbial Risk Analysis PDG minutes from 2007 without changes. new Business: 1. Merger of two PDGs: Leon Gorris led a discussion among attendees from both PDGs about merging the newly proposed Predictive Modelling PDG and the Microbial Risk Analysis PDG. Many comments were given by the attendees, all in favor of merging the two groups to avoid duplication of efforts and to allow for a possible synergistic relationship between the two fields. It was noted that the PM PDG was created to provide a stable home for an ad hoc PM group that has organized several international meetings in this field. Richard Whiting moved that the two groups merge, which was seconded by Yuhuan Chen and Ewen Todd. The motion passed unanimously. After a short discussion, attendees agreed that the new name will be the Microbial Modelling and Risk Analysis PDG. It is anticipated that the new PDG will be involved in development of international meetings in conjunction with IAFP. PDG leadership: After discussion, Ann Draughon moved that Mickey Parish and George Nychas serve as Co-Chairs for two years. Seconded by Seconded by Leon Gorris, the motion passed unanimously. After accepting nominations, Deon Mahoney was elected Vice Chair of the merged PDG taking the office of Chair at the IAFP Annual Meeting in 2010. Current Meeting: Mickey reminded everyone about the PDG symposia/roundtables being held at this meeting. Leon gave a report on the Risk Analysis workshop held August 2. There were 32 attendees including 23 from industry and participants had provided positive feed-back. 2. 3. NOVEMBER 2008 | FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS 851

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