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Leverage Student Liaisons to help develop program topics
and delivery as part of their professional development.

Four webinars are planned for the next year beginning with a
discussion of the science behind use of chlorine dioxide gas
for decontamination of food contact surfaces. We will invite the
Food Hygiene & Sanitation PDG.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Conference Call on August 23, 2017.
Meeting Adjourned: 4:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Edith Wilkin.

Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG
Names of Attendees: Siti Aisha Abd Aziz, Melanie Abley,
Pamela Abney, Frederick Adzitey, Sulaiman Aljasir, Pablo
Alvarez, Abdur Amin, Patrice Arbault, Christopher Baker,
Danielle Balay, Kristina Barlow, Laura Bauermeister, Lenore
Bennett, Sylvia Bergman, Mark Berrang, Bruna Bertoldi,
Roy Biggs, Sharon Birkett, Preetha Biswas, Audrey Boeken,
Betsy Booren, Jeanine Boulter-Bitzer, Alex Brandt, Robert
Brodnick, Alexander Bruner, Greg Burnham, Jose Calzada,
John Carter, Marion Castle, Mara Celt, Evan Chaney, Ma.
Rocelle Clavero, Francesca Contadini, Roger Cook, Sally
Crowley, Patricia Curtis, Carl Custer, Jenifer Czach, Thomas
Danisavich, Maria Teresa Destro, Yiran Ding, Eric Ebel, Kevin
Edwards, Jose Emilio Esteban, Casey Fripp, Alkmini Gavriil,
Kerri Gehring, Kathleen Glass, Alison Griffino, Leena Griffith,
Miguel Gutierrez, Mohammed Hakeem, Susan Hammons,
Xiao Xu Han, Margaret Hardin, Breanne Harlan, Craig
Henry, Tyler Henry, Sandra Hoffmann, Cllint Holsomback,
Ingrid Huntley, Alison Hurysz, Todd Ireland, Margaret Jacks,
Watchara Janwatcharagan, John Jarosh, Ian Jenson, Lone
Jespersen, John Johnston, Amy Jones, Tineke Jones, Charles
Kalish, Rick Kanaby, Dallas Kantoci, Karim-Franck Khinouche,
Amanda King, Larry Kohl, Audrey Kreske, Mark Kreul, Heath
LaFevers, Hui Key Lee, Yanbin Li, Richard Likin, John
Line, Elisangela Lopes, John Luchansky, John Marcy, Barb
Masters, Thomas McCaskey, KatieRose McCullough, Lynn
McIntyre, Samantha McKinney, Lynn McMullen, Mohammad
Melebari, Michael Michele, Zahra Mohammad, Daniel Monte,
Amit Morey, Tetsuya Mori, Peter Muriana, Claudia Narvaez,
Kathleen O'Donnell, James O'Neal, Ruth Petran, Randall
Phebus, Anna Porto-Fett, Kally Probasco, Christophe Quiring,
Lakshmanan Ramamoorthi, Chris Ramezanpour, Maria
Ramirez, Tian Ren, Beth Riffe, Deana Rolheiser, Maysa
Sa, Marc Scantlin, Jason Scheffler, Daniel Schmitz, Holger
Schoenenbruecher, Tina Shaffer, Subash Shrestha, Robbie
Smith, Thierry Sofia, Riikka Soininen, Rafael Solis, Tyler
Stephens, Celia Suarez Pantaleon, Yoko Takahashi, Juming
Tang, Thomas Taylor, Todd Taylor, Ellen Thomas, Leslie
Thompson-Strehlow, Nick Van Lankveld, Constanza Vergara,
Cynthia Villacorta, Isabel Walls, Hong Wang, Ronghui Wang,
Jennifer Wasieleski, Wendy White, Andrew Wilson, Jian Wu,
Shuang Wu, Zheng Wu, Xianqin Yang, Jing Yuan, Veronica
Zavala, Alex Zeman, Peipei Zhang, Xuan Zhang, and Cynthia
Zook. Number of Attendees: 152.
Meeting Called to Order: 9:00 a.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Christopher Baker.
Old Business: Betsy Booren (Chair) started the PDG meeting
with a brief introduction. Barb Masters introduced the Antitrust
Guidelines, which included encouraging members to share

best practices while not participating in financial or competitive discussions. Booren stated that PDG memberships can
be added and/or removed by editing member profiles in the
IAFP website. Each PDG member in attendance introduced
themselves to the group from 9:05 - 9:15 a.m. At 9:15 a.m.,
Dr. Emilio Esteban started his presentation to the group, and
Roger Cook (Board Liaison) spoke and encouraged discussions among members to promote a learning environment
during the session.
Dr. Esteban provided a FSIS-OPHS presentation on the
following topics: implementing nBPW, initiating phase II of
a pork exploratory study, catfish, NARMS extensions, WGS
and AMR, and pathogen detection technologies. Dr. Esteban
responded to audience questions.
New Business:
A discussion was initiated on next year's IAFP conference. Booren discussed the numbers on how many symposiums, roundtables, and technical session that were submitted
and accepted. An exercise on brainstorming for 2018 education programming was performed. The PDG thanked 3M
for the materials donated to the PDG for the brainstorming
session. The session concluded with Wendy White mentioning
that members could continue to collaborate on additional symposium, roundtable, and technical session ideas up until the
submission deadline.
Masters led an open discussion with members, which discussed FDA and FSIS compliance guidance and opportunities
for comment. Also discussed was potential STEC outbreak
attributed to pork in Canada. Additional details were shared
indicating both attributed outbreaks were found to originate
from facilities that manufactured multiple species.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1.
2.

Recommend that Wendy White, Golden State Foods, be
recognized as Vice Chair.
Recommend that the PDG Chair be notified, in addition
to the organizer, for education programs not accepted by
the Program Committee. This will ensure that topics of
interest could be developed for future webinar educational
programming.
Recommend IAFP offer pre-paid ticket lunch on Sunday
with PDG meetings to facilitate PDG attendance in afternoon sessions.

Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2019, Salt Lake City, UT.
Meeting Adjourned: 11:00 a.m.
Chairperson: Betsy Booren.

Microbial Modelling and Risk Analysis PDG
Attendees: Nurul Hawa Ahmad, Alejandro Amezquita,
Maren Anderson, Manish Aryal, David Baker, Angel Barnes
Jr., John Bassett, May Frances Bautista, Mark Beaumont,
Tamrat Belete, Dan Belina, Thomas Bell, Peter Ben Embarek,
Robert Brodnick, Tom Bruursema, Sarah Cahill, Joanna
Carroll, Dongjie Chen, Yuhuan Chen, Sally Crowley, Heidy
Den Besten, Madhumeeta Dutta, Mariem Ellouze, Jeff
Farber, Yaohua Feng, Alonzo Gabriel, Zhujun Gao, Francisco
Garces-Vega, Mirijam Garske, Leon Gorris, Karen GregoryWilliams, Leena Griffith, Sanjay Gummalla, Brian Hawkins,
Erin Headley, Montserrat Hernandez Iturriaga, Ian Hildebrandt,
Sunee Himathongkham, Sandra Hoffmann, Lihan Huang,
Xiao Ping Huang, Cheng-An Hwang, Matt Igo, Oluwatosin
Ijabadeniyi, Keith Ito, Jiin Jung, Janell Kause, Laura Keller,

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