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CommittEE Minutes STANDING COMMITTEES Food Protection Trends Management Committee Members Present: Michelle Danyluk (Chair), David Golden, Gary Acuff, Walid Alali, Kristina Barlow, Richelle Beverly, Ben Chapman, Yuhuan Chen, Vanessa Cranford, Angie Fraser, Andy Hwang, Manpreet Singh, Jan Singleton, Michelle Smith, Kelly Stevens and Patricia Rule. Board/Staff Members Present: Lee-Ann Jaykus, Katie Swanson, Donna Bahun, Lisa Hovey and David Tharp. Outgoing Member Present: Mark Berrang. Visitors/Guests: Jinru Chen and Amy Simmone. Meeting Called to Order: 2:02 p.m., Sunday, July 31, 2011. Recording Secretary of Minutes: Ben Chapman. Welcome: Michelle Danyluk welcomed everyone to the meeting and all persons in attendance. All persons in attendance at the commencement of the meeting introduced themselves and their affiliation. Michelle reminded the group that the charge of the management committee is to guide the staff and Board on making decisions about the future of the FPT Journal. Katie Swanson brought greetings from the Board: • Record attendance. • Great brand recognition, built on the back of the journals like FPT. • Instruction of minutes and recommendations to the Board. • Related to multiple conflicts – could committee deal with a shorter time slot? Input to the board requested (Board recommendation below.) 2. received to FPT. To date in 2011, 16 manuscripts have been submitted with 2 accepted, 2 rejected, and four under revision, 8 in review process. Most papers have been survey, extension and retail food safety-focused. Out of the 16 papers that have been submitted so far in 2011, one was “lab-based”. Google scholar is now picking up FPT in its indices – confirmed by Michelle. Four out of 16 of this year’s submissions came from David’s solicitation at the 2010 annual meeting after going through poster and technical sessions. Old Business: Michelle Danyluk gave the status of the 2010 recommendations to the Executive Board: 1. Revise FPT Instructions for Authors to include the statement “manuscripts not formatted correctly may be rejected without review at the discretion of the Scientific Editor.” Board Response: Agree. This has been done. Restructure the online indexing (Table of Contents) of FPT articles to increase accessibility and link directly to article PDFs. Additionally, provide RSS feeds and email alerts to notify of FPT publication and make these alerts/abstracts publicly accessible. Board Response: IAFP staff will work to improve these systems. This has been done. Upload historic DFES publications as searchable PDFs by keyword and author to the FPT Web site. Board Response: IAFP staff will work to improve these systems. In the short-term, if the Committee provides a list of specific articles of importance, IAFP staff will make them available first. This has not been done and the recommendation will be made again (see below). 3. New Business: The committee discussed the reappointment of David Golden as Scientific Editor of FPT. Richelle Beverly moved that David be reappointed, Ben Chapman seconded. Motion passed. It was suggested to add a stipulation linked to IAFPsponsored speakers to submit a paper to FPT following the Annual Meeting. This spurred a discussion about opinion pieces and paper that was recently rejected from FPT on the basis of excessive opinion. It was suggested that FPT authors should not be restrained by the “full length opinion articles will not be accepted for publication” policy and the committee needs to provide a framework and clearer guidance on how format and present lengthy evidence-based opinion pieces (such as NACMCF-type articles). These articles could be developed from roundtables and symposia in future programs and conveners would be solicited and guided prior to the meeting. The discussion also expanded into better defining the general interest piece guidance. Specifically, the committee discussed better definitions and example of acceptable lengthy opinion, general interest and review articles (and look to medical journals for format and style for expert opinion, call-to-action, best practice and educational pieces). Pat Rule volunteered to lead a subcommittee to pull together the above guidance/framework and to solicit papers from roundtable/symposia accepted for 2012 as well as PDGs. This committee will also revisit actively soliciting graduate students’ literature review articles. Subcommittee members include: Pat Rule, Richelle Beverly, Jan Singleton, Vanessa Cranford, Ben Chapman, Walid Alali and Andy Hwang. Julian Cox is also a silent partner. Membership: Michelle Danyluk – Due to conflict of time with the Water PDG that she chairs, Susan McKnight has asked to be and has been removed from the Management Committee by the Board. Board has asked FPT Management Committee to recommend a replacement. Committee asked Pat Rule to stay on until 7-27-2013. (Board recommendation below.) Gary Acuff motioned to accept the 2011 agenda seconded by Yuhuan Chen. Motion carried. The 2010 minutes were approved by the Committee without amendments or corrections. Motion by Kelly Stevens; second by Pat Rule. New Vice Chair Election: Michelle Danyluk indicated that Richelle Beverly had been nominated to be the new vice chair, progressing to chair term begins upon approval by Board. (Board recommendation below.) Executive Board Report: Lee-Ann Jaykus provided a report indicating the success of the international programs in 2010/11. The membership numbers are currently at 3,600, up 12% over the past four years. The Web site has been very busy, over 14,000 visitors each month. Last year’s annual meeting was a record breaker – expecting more than 2,500 attendees this year in Milwaukee. Lee-Ann spoke about the successful student PDG activities. Executive Director Report: David Tharp was present; Lee-Ann reviewed successful financial year. Scientific Editor Report: David Golden presented information related to the numbers, authorship and sources of manuscripts 752 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | NOVEMBER 2011

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Food Protection Trends - November 2011

Food Protection Trends - November 2011
Contents
Sustaining Members
Food for Thought from Your President
Commentary from the Executive Director
A Comparison of Overall Versus Duty-specific Food Poisoning Prevention Knowledge among Restaurant Food Handlers
Relationship between Cleaning Practices and Microbiological Contamination in Domestic Kitchens
IAFP 2011 in Review
Award Winners
bioMérieux Industry – Black Pearl Award Winner
Ivan Parkin Lecture – Roger Cook
John H. Silliker Lecture – Jorgen Schlundt
Travel Award for State or Local Health or State Agricultural Department Employees
Student Travel Scholarships
Session Summaries
Executive Board Meeting Topics
Minutes of the 2011 Annual Business Meeting
Committee Minutes
Executive Board Response to Committee Recommendations
Silent Auction R esults
Exhibitors of IAFP 2011
IAFP 2012 Award Nominations
New Members
What’s Happening in Food Safety
Industry Products
Coming Events
Advertising Index
Journal of Food Protection Table of Contents
Booklet Order Form
Membership Application

Food Protection Trends - November 2011