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Brainstorming of Symposia ideas:
a. Supplier verification activities - what is really needed? As it relates to audits, scientific basis of preventive controls, choosing the appropriate validation
of process controls (i.e., using the right surrogate).
Speakers from various parts of the supply chain and
address the categories along the supply chain -
Rocelle Clavero and Johnny Yu.
b. How to handle HACCP/Food safety plans in dual or
multi-jurisdiction manufacturing facilities (such as
USDA/FDA, or FDA PCHF/Seafood HACCP, or FDA
PCHF/Juice HACCP) - CCPs and PPs vs. PCs in
one plant? - Sally Kinnet and Lori Ledenbach.
c.
Using COA testing as a verification activity for supply
chain controls - how to determine appropriate methods and sampling schemes (this can be done jointly
with the Applied Methods PDG) - Rocelle Clavero
and Amanda Kinchla. May also be a good article for
FPT - Neil Bogart and John Bassett will work on
that idea.
d. Application of FMEA tools and principles in verification of food safety plans - Liz Palmer and Bala
Kottapali (from the Microbial Modelling and Risk
Analysis PDG).

Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend that Deann Akins-Lewenthal be approved as
Vice Chair of the PDG.
2. Request that the Board determine how many hits have
been made in the last 2 years on the IAFP HACCP
Guidance document and inform the PDG Chair of the
results.
Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Conference call - mid to late August.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:50 p.m.
Chairperson: Loralyn Ledenbach.

International Food Protection Issues PDG
Attendees: Frederick Adzitey, Sultan Al Tahir, Bassam
Annous, Jianfa Bai, Peter Ben Embarek, DeAnn Benesh,
Sylvia Bergman, Sarah Cahill, Marion Castle, Teen Teen Chin,
Roger Cook, Sally Crowley, Carl Custer, Heidy Den Besten,
Maria Teresa Destro, Jeff Farber, Laurie Farmer, Francoise
Fontannaz, Elise Forward, Leon Gorris, Judy Greig, Brenda
Halbrook, John Heller, Sunee Himathongkham, Sandra
Hoffmann, Tim Jackson, John Jarosh, Ian Jenson, Bobby
Krishna, Keith Lampel, Linda Leake, Alvin Lee, Jing Ma, Li
Ma, Deon Mahoney, Alejandro Mazzotta, Marianne MiliotisSolomotis, Per Nielsen, James O'Donnell, Haley Oliver, AnneMarie Perchec-Merien, Ruth Petran, Damanna Rao, S. G. D.
Nagalakshmi Reddi, Deana Rolheiser, John Sanders, Jenny
Scott, Panagiotis Skandamis, Peter Slade, Thierry Sofia,
Aswathi Soni, Mark Tamplin, Ewen Todd, Purnendu Vasavada,
Jason Wan, Andrew Wilson, Guodong Zhang, and Marcel
Zwietering. Number of Attendees: 58.
Meeting Called to Order: 2:35 p.m., Saturday, July 8, 2017.
Chair: Leon Gorris, Past-Chair: Bobby Krishna, and New
Vice Chair: Ian Jenson.
Leon opened the meeting welcoming the PDG members
and new attendees. He reminded the participants of the purpose of the meeting and presented the proposed agenda.
Other than the election of a new Vice Chairperson, there were
no additions to the agenda.

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On behalf of the Board, Roger Cook welcomed the
attendees. He noted that the normal info from the Board on
IAFP would be shared during the opening session. The Board
invites suggestions from the PDG to involve students more
and to consider awards for students to specifically recognize
them. The Board also encouraged PDGs to consider more initiatives such as webinars for symposia ideas not selected for
further development into Annual Meeting sessions.
Old Business: The minutes of the 2016 PDG Meeting were
adopted as written (Deon Mahoney proposed; seconded by
Jeff Farber).
New Business:
Election of Vice Chair. Leon reminded the meeting of
the SurveyMonkey issued to vote for one of the three candidates (Brian Stringer, Canada; Bassam Annous, U.S.; and Ian
Jenson, Australia) and allowed attendees a last chance for
voting. The final result of the voting was that a majority of the
PDG membership elected Ian Jenson as the new Vice Chair,
starting office right away and taking on the role of Chairperson
at the IAFP annual meeting in 2019. Leon thanked all three
candidates for stepping forward and congratulated Ian. On
behalf of the PDG, Leon thanked Bobby for the four years of
his special commitment and energy put into the PDG's activities.
Success rate of last year's symposia submissions.
The Chair noted that out of the 6 symposia sessions suggested by the group in 2016, 2 were on the 2017 Annual Meeting
program. The PDG further suggested proposals of others, of
which 3 made it to the final program.
Updates from (International) Organizations and countries/
regions.
a.
FAO & WHO: Sarah Cahill (FAO) and Peter BenEmbarak (WHO) updated the meeting as follows.
The past year has seen a number of important initiatives and activities. We will give you here a brief
overview (full details to be provided to members by
email) of some of the more important and relevant
for the members of this PDG.
* Antimicrobial resistance: Codex requested
advice on all the factors potentially contributing to foodborne AMR, not just on the animal
health production side but also crop production,
biocides sanitizers, environment, packaging,
waste. To minimize the public health impact of
AMR associated with the use of antimicrobials
in the food chain, the WHO Advisory Group
on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial
Resistance (AGISAR) has been playing an
active role in the implementation of GAP.
AGISAR support country laboratory capacity
building projects, with an aim to characterize
the AMR of foodborne pathogens in at least two
sectors along the food chain.
* Food control systems assessment tools: FAO
and WHO have worked jointly to offer Member
Countries a tool to assess, in structured, transparent and measurable ways, the performance
of their food control system throughout the
entire food chain, identify priority areas for
capacity development, and measure and evaluate progress over time. FAO and WHO con-

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