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Artisanal food 10:30 a.m. - noon Tuesday
3rd proposal not submitted - can resubmit for next
year
Communication is paramount for submission

New Business:
Introduced panel speakers: Topic - Big Data Management
Tom Ford - Ecolab
Ben Chapman - N.C. State
Cory Hedman - Meijer
Tom Ford will become Chair at IAFP 2018; Francie Buck
will remain as Secretary.
Nominations were accepted for potential Vice Chair (for
term beginning at IAFP 2018) will be voted on through Survey
Monkey in Sept. or Oct.
Gave a description of expectations and duties for Vice
Chair:
* Help develop symposia/roundtable proposals for 2018
webinar development
* Nominations:
* Megan Cox - Deloitte, self-nominated for VC
* Janet Buffer - Amazon, nominated by Gina
* Eric Moore - Testo solutions
* Haley Oliver - Purdue
Proposal submission deadline is Oct. 3.
* Big Data
* ATP testing - led by EL last year, Haley Oliver is a
potential speaker
* Haley Oliver - economic trends in retail (online, food
delivery, Blue Apron, Uber Eats) how are the demographics affected? CFP Committee has a committee
on this - we can get speakers from them
* Megan Cox - Sensing and responding to unforeseen
risk - symposia on technology IoT, applications on
IoT - Megan will work on co-sponsoring with Food
Defense PDG
* GFSI - retail and food service schemes - Hillary
Thesmer submitted 2 years ago - work with Anne
Gerardi from GFSI
Black Pearl Award
Executive Board Recommendations
Ann Marie - PDG member introduction
FSIS symposia - Hilary
Sessions 5 and 46
Megan Cox symposium - Crisis management roundtable
330-5
IAFP secretary introduction - how can we involve
students more?
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Jay Neal.

Sanitary Equipment and Facility Design PDG
Names of Attendees: Mohammed Alhejaili, Keith Amoroso,
Angela Anandappa, Amanda Beitler, Thomas Bell, Tom Berry,
Steven Blackowiak, Gleyn Bledsoe, Rachael Blevins, David
Blomquist, Laurel Burall, Greg Burnham, Erdogan Ceylan,
Roger Cook, Cecilia Crowley, Denise DuFresne, Carianne
Endert-Klaasen, Mario Estrada, Alexander Fridman, Robert

Fuller, Mike Garrison, Charles Giambrone, Margaret Good,
Sheri Governo, Duane Grassmann, Karen Gregory-Williams,
Leena Griffith, Hillary Hagan, Kenichi Higashiyama, John
Holah, Lotte Jensen, Sanghyup Jeong, Chris Johnson,
Raven Johnson, Brian Kraus, Mark Kreul, John Larkin, Soon
Kiat Lau, Susan Leslie, Lisa Lucore, Deon Mahoney, Edyta
Margas, Bradley Marks, John Merenick, Rob Middendorf, Pat
Millner, Nathan Mirdamadi, Gerardo Morantes, Steven Murphy,
James O'Donnell, Aaron Patch, Vera Peterson, Manon Proulx,
Zhang Qi, Cari Rasmussen, David Rasmussen, Todd Rossow,
Sara Rowland, Timothy Rugh, Robert Sakata, Michele Sayles,
Anthony Shaw, Dorra Simmons, Steven Sims, Tracey Sinclair,
Debra Smith, Justin Smith, Frederick Stokes, Jeyamkondan
Subbiah, Quincy Suehr, Dimitri Tavernarakis, Michele
Theberge, Daniel Vassar, Stephen Walker, Tongyu Wu,
Hongshun Yang, and Robert Yarsulik. Number of Attendees:
77.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:15 p.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017 by
Edyta Margas. The IAFP Antitrust Guidelines were read.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Sophie Wu.
Old Business: Approved minutes of the 2016 meeting.
New Business:
* Board member Roger Cook give a short welcome
speech. He emphasized increased connection, participation and input from students and young scientists.
* Prof. John Holah gave a presentation on hygienic
design of food factories, followed by discussion. Main
points included: Cooperation between architecture and
food safety - what if architecture contradicts and jeopardizes hygienic design, drain design issues etc.
* New Vice Chair was elected: Dimitri Tavernarakis,
Senior R&D mechanical engineer, Compac, New
Zealand.
* Putting ideas for symposia together with 3-A committee was considered and symposia ideas from 3-A
committee meeting were discussed.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Request approval of Dimitri Tavernarakis as Vice Chair to
begin serving at IAFP 2018.
Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Conference call in October 2017.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Edyta Margas.

Seafood Safety and Quality PDG
Names of Attendees: Keith Amoroso, Jeff Anderson, Marc
Barrett, Sohini Bhatia, Preetha Biswas, Gleyn Bledsoe,
Kenneth Boyer, Marion Castle, Long Chen, Chen-Hsuan Chiu,
Changsun Choi, Matthew Coleman, Sally Crowley, Mauricio
Durigan, Kevin Edwards, Mario Gadanho, Xin Gao, Foivos
Genigiorgis, Serena Giovinazzi, Fabienne Hamon, John Heller,
Matt Igo, Todd Ireland, Whitney Jaillet, Jessica Jones, Rick
Kanaby, Dallas Kantoci, David Kingsley, Kalmia Kniel, Lin
Koh, Michelle Lovett, Joey Marchant, Edyta Margas, Douglas
Marshall, John Merenick, Naim Montazeri, Tetsuya Mori, David
Morrison, Chad Nelson, Mellonie O'Neill, HyunKyung Park, Si
Hong Park, Salina Parveen, Frederic Pastori, Sophie Pierre,
Suresh Pillai, Lori Pivarnik, Victoria Pruente, Maria Ramirez,
Forest Reichel, Nancy Rubio, Angela Ruple, Dong Joo Seo,
Subash Shrestha, Gregory Siragusa, Rafael Solis, Tori Stivers,

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