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Closing Remarks: Thank you to the PDG members for your hard work and dedication to the PDG. Thank you to Pat Rule and bioMérieux for supporting our webinars. Meeting Adjourned: 2:10 p.m. Chairperson: Vanessa Cranford. Next Meeting Date: August 1, 2010. Meeting Adjourned: 3:30 p.m. Chairperson: Frank Burns. Dairy Quality and Safety PDG Members Present: Allen Sayler (Chair), Joseph Odumeru (Vice Chair), David Blomquist, Dennis Bogart, Don Breiner,Yvonne Chan, Warren Clark, Jr., Randall Daggs, Dan Erickson, Eugene Frey, Dennis Gaalswyk, Loralyn Ledenbach, Thomas McCaskey, Lindsey McDonnell, Steven Murphy, Gary Pruitt, Amanda Rife, Sherry Roberts, Ronald Schmidt, Steven Sims, Gry Dawn Terrell, Purnendu Vasavada and Phillip Wolff. New Members Present: Patrice Arbault, Phyllis Posy, Brian Thane, Bob Koeritzer, Larry Cohen, Nurliza Buyong, Heather Craven, Niteen Sawant, William Northeimer, Thomas Graham, Christophe Dufour, Ravinder Reddy, Christina Belperio, Sharon Wilson, Fred Weber, Linda Leake, Fritz Lembke, Gene Wright, Nancy Silvester, Arlette Shazer, David Laird and Jeff Farrar. Board Liaison Present: Vickie Lewandowski. Meeting Called to Order: 2:00 p.m., July 12, 2009. Recording Secretary of Minutes: Joseph Odumeru. 1. Welcome and Role Call of Attendance: Chair Allen Sayler led with 45 members and visitors present. Each meeting participant present was asked to give a brief introduction about themselves and their employer. Vickie Lewandowski, President Elect and Dairy PDG Liaison spoke about changes to symposia proposals’ submission. Symposia proposals are due on October 19 and no longer due during the IAFP Annual Meeting. This is to give program committee time to adequately review the proposals. Program committee will evaluate the meeting proposals and the submitters will be notified regarding acceptance of their proposal for further development by Nov 4. Program committee will meet early January to review proposals and provide notification of acceptance by Feb 3rd. Initial submissions are to be done online. She also indicated that the PDG meetings are for discussions of relevant issues in their field and also provide opportunities for networking.Vickie also indicated that there will be discussions on the future of the Food Protection Trends (FPT) publication. The content of the publication need to be more applied technical articles. She suggested having each PDG submit at least 2 applied technical articles per year and Chair Sayler encouraged PDG members to recommend ideas for submission to him or directly to FPT. 2. Past Chair’s comments: Lori thanked the group for the support she received as Chair for the past couple of years and encouraged the group to provide the same support to the new chair. 3. Chair Sayler indicated that there will be a conference call during the month of August to discuss Dairy PDG proposals for submission to the IAFP program committee in October. The minutes of the last face-to-face meeting held on August 3, 2008, and conference calls held October 27, 2008, January 22, 2009 and April 6, 2009 were reviewed and David Blomquist moved for adoption and seconded by Amanda Rife. 4. Dr. Ewen Todd spoke about the planning for the up coming conference on Risk Assessment – Pros and Cons of Raw Milk Products. No agenda committee had been Beverage PDG Members Present: Frank Burns (Chair), Jacquelyn Miles, Joe Shebuski, Julie Kuruc, Kenneth Janes, Mangesh Palekar, Peter Kennedy, Kathleen Lawlor, Mickey Parish and Larry Beuchat. New Members Present: Hisato Ikemoto, Dean Davidson, Chuck Czuprynski, Eric Amann and Suresh Pillai. Board Liaison Present: Isabel Walls. Meeting Called to Order: 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 12, 2009. Recording Secretary of Minutes: Frank Burns. Old Business: No old business was discussed. New Business: Members were welcomed and anti-trust “do nots” were read from the committee meeting handbook. The impact of the new FDA bottled water rule and the impact on regulation of flavored and fortified waters, as well as sports drinks, was presented as a potential topic for a symposium for 2010 and supported by the committee. -Kathy Lawler will work to attempt coordination with Food Law PDG to see if they would like to partner on this symposium. The resubmission of the wet work shop for yeast and mold identification for 2010 was discussed. The workshop had been fully subscribed in 2008. It was discussed that a more beverage spoilage-directed inclusion of lactics and Alicyclobacillus be added. The committee felt that keeping the work shop as is, and providing a webinar on Alicyclobacillus methods would be a better option. Frank Burns will determine if laboratory facilities are available (Perhaps Chapman College) Mangesh Palekar, Jackie Miles and Julie Kuruc will organize the workshop if lab space can be identified. Joe Shebuski and Frank Burns will organize the Alicyclobacillus webinar. Interest in presentation of issues regarding botulinum toxin in beverages was discussed, it was considered that this might fit into chemical hazards, and that it should be discussed with that PDG. Frank Burns will contact Chemical Hazards PDG to see if there is common interest. Interest in a workshop addressing microbial issues with minimally-processed juices and more complex beverages, including low acid and vegetable juices, was discussed. A symposium “packaging, sustainability and food safety” looking at the intersection of these elements was discussed and supported by the committee. Frank Burns and Kathy Lawlor will work on fleshing out this proposal. Committee chair will send monthly updates to committee members on the status of these proposals until actual submission date in October. Recommendations to Executive Board: 1. Give weight to the availability of convenient laboratory space for potential wet work shops in decision for future meeting locations. 2. Kathy Lawlor was elected Vice Chair. 718 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | OCTOBER 2009

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