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Marisa Bunning, Frank Busta, Melanie Butler, James Byam,
Allen Byrd, Cigdem Caban, John Carter, Rebecca Catalena,
Teen Teen Chin, Kevin Clapper, Angel Conde, Alison
Cousins, Meghan Cox, Sally Crowley, Patricia Curtis, Tenille
De Souza, Denise DuFresne, Kevin Edwards, Mariem Ellouze,
Bertrand Emond, Martin Escamilla, Blanca Escudero-Abarca,
Martin Guy Ethy Ethy, Patrick Fach, Xuetong Fan, Faye
Feldstein, Kimberly Fisher, Bill Folkerts, Thomas Fortman,
Elise Forward, Alexander Fridman, Alejandro Garrido-Maestu,
Samantha Gartley, Tiah Ghostlaw, Puspo Edi Giriwono,
Jonathan Glynn, Margaret Good, Sarah Gooding (Davies),
Michele Gorman, Sheri Governo, Sanjay Gummalla, Brenda
Halbrook, Xiao Xu Han, Melanie Harris, Tyler Henry, Sunee
Himathongkham, Theresa Holland, Cllint Holsomback,
Ingrid Huntley, William Huntley, Atef Idriss, Raven Johnson,
Trey Kampeter, Mark Kazmierczak, Brenda Keavey, David
Kloberdanz, Kathy Knutson, Jaheon Koo, Brian Kraus, William
Lachowsky, Marcus Langen, John Larkin, Guy Latreille,
Linda Leake, Justin Lee, Martha Limo, Elisangela Lopes,
Maria Lovelace-Johnson, James Lucas, David Luedeke,
Deon Mahoney, Steven Mandernach, Christopher Mann, Bob
Martin, Deborah McIntyre, Adora Christee Mercado, Karen
Mertins, Amie Minor, Eric Moore, Paul Morin, Steve Moris,
Matthew Morris, James Nasella, Chad Nelson, Ryan Newkirk,
Angela Nguyen, Katia Noll, Hilda Nyati, Michele Oostenbrug,
Ynes Ortega, Andrea Ottesen, Don Pagh, Mangesh Palekar,
Mickey Parish, Michael Perry, Randall Phebus, Suresh
Pillai, Lori Pivarnik, Sarah Potter, Gale Prince, Li Qian, Mira
Rakic Martinez, David Rasmussen, Amy Rhodes, Michael
Roberson, Helen Roberts, Luis Rodriguez, Oscar RodriguezGonzalez, John Sanders, Katie Satchwell, Allen Sayler,
Donna Schaffner, Dina Scott, Jenny Scott, Chuck Seaman,
Natalie Seymour, Anthony Shaw, Julie Simcox, Guy Skinner,
Daniel Smith, Brian Stegmann, Tori Stivers, Celia Suarez
Pantaleon, Juming Tang, Michele Theberg, Hung King Tiong,
Angela Tuxhorn, Lidia Valdes, Jennifer van de Ligt, Nick Van
Lankveld, Lilou Van Lieshout, Roxana Vasilescu, Edward
Verosko, Cynthia Villacorta, Xinyue Wang, William Weichelt,
Frances Widjaja, Edith Wilkin, Zhinong Yan, and Alex Zeman.
Number of Attendees: 162.

S22 - Defining, Capturing, and Assessing the
Vulnerability of the Food Supply to Economically
Motivated Adulteration (EMA) and Food Fraud
S56 - Chemical and Microbial Risk Assessment:
Similarities and Differences
S59 - Combatting Bioterrorism: How Select Agent
Testing Laboratories are Staying One Step Ahead of the
Bad Guys
P1 - Poster session 1 - Food Defense
New Business:
* Membership was reminded that proposals for IAFP 2018
are due on 03-OCT-2017.
* https://goo.gl/forms/2GfSlQRV6gykjAwr2
* 100 Surveys were distributed; the response rate was
around 10%.
* Members were informed that the next IAFP Annual
Meeting is going to be in Salt Lake City, UT.
* Ryan Newkirk (FDA) and Colin Barthel (FDA) spoke
about the Intentional Adulteration (IA) rule.
* The ideas for session proposals included:
1. Cyber threats and cybercrime - recycle proposal
from previous year by Campden BRI. Additional
ideas included internet of things (IoT), block chain,
and cyber threats by Deloitte Consulting personnel.
2. Criminal activity and risk identification
3. FBI collaborations (Infragard), and response to criminal activity - https://www.infragard.org/Application/
General/Branch?id=48
4. Social media and food defense by various
5. Food Trucks (cottage production) and food defense
by various
6. International Food Defense - Challenges and
Success via Case Study of interagency collaboration
across the globe
7. Vulnerability Assessments
8. Intentional Adulteration Rule - continued progress
on the regulation from FDA
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1.

PDG recommends no changes to the mission statement.

Meeting Called to Order: 10:00 a.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.

Recommend the approval of Oscar Rodriguez-Gonzalez
as Chair of the Food Defense PDG for 2018-2020.

Minutes Recording Secretary: Oscar Rodriguez-Gonzalez.

Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.

Old Business:

Meeting Adjourned: 12:00 p.m.

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The Antitrust Guidelines were reviewed and accepted by
the group.
All persons in attendance at the commencement of the
meeting introduced themselves.
Mickey Parish (IAFP President-Elect) spoke about PDGs,
meeting attendance, submission of proposals, educational plans, about student involvement in PDGs and creating programs for competition and recognition of student
efforts.
* The 2016 Symposia were reviewed, and ideas
reviewed.
* Board responses to previous recommendations from
2016 were reviewed.
* The 2017 Symposia were reviewed and included;
RT2 - Hear All About It: Managing a Crisis

Chairperson: Jennifer Pierquet.

Food Fraud PDG
Names of Attendees: Brian Bedard, Peter Ben Embarek,
Sharon Birkett, Neil Bogart, Ismail Boyaci, Sandra Chaves,
Dongjie Chen, Jeff Chilton, Stoyka Chipeliakova, Kevin
Edwards, Bill Folkerts, Elise Forward, Mario Gadanho, Brian
Giannini, Ramin Khaksar, Jaheon Koo, Linda Leake, Charlotte
Liang, Juer Liu, Jesse Miller, Melanie Neumann-Cherney,
Quynh-Anh Nguyen, David Park, Randall Phebus, Sophie
Pierre, Lawrence Platt, Samantha Raccanello, John Sanders,
Aurora Saulo, Donna Schaffner, Joe Scimeca, Sokrith Sea,
Steven Sklare, Gary Smith, Arleen Tibayan, Carl Turcotte,
Jennifer van de Ligt, Xinyue Wang, Benjamin Waring, and
Lisa Weddig. Total Number of Attendees: 40.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:20 p.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.

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