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Committee and Professional
Development Group Minutes
STANDING COMMITTEES
Food Protection Trends Management Committee
Members Present: Byron Chaves (Chair), Catherine Nettles Cutter
(FPT Scientific Editor), Fred Breidt (JFP Management Committee Chair),
Bobby Krishna, Efi Papafragkou, Ian Jenson, Jessica Chen, Salina
Parveen, and Stephen Grove.
New Members Present: Laura Strawn (Vice Chair), Melody Ge,
Alida Sorenson, and Purnendu Vasavada.
Outgoing Members Present: Matthew Taylor (Outgoing Chair)
and Dennis D'Amico.
Board/Staff Present: Michelle Danyluk, Kali Kniel, Ruth Petran, Donna
Bahun, Lisa Hovey, Didi Loynachan, Dina Siedenburg, and David Tharp.
Visitors: Judy Luther and Tim Jackson.
Number of Attendees: 25.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:03 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, June 3,
2021.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Matthew Taylor.
Old Business: Appointment of Recording Secretary: Matthew Taylor
volunteers to serve and was approved by Incoming Chair Byron Chaves.
Welcome to new members and thanks to outgoing members. Byron
Chaves asked new members of the committee to introduce themselves.
Melody Ge joined and introduced herself. Laura Strawn introduced herself
as a new committee member. Tim Jackson introduces himself. Bobby
Krishna also introduces himself, as well as Alida Sorenson. Purnendu
Vasavada also introduced himself as a new member. Byron also gave
thanks to outgoing committee members: Dennis D'Amico, Sally Klinect,
Matthew Taylor, and William Shaw.
Appointing new Vice Chair: Byron Chaves indicated an opportunity
for nominations for Vice Chair. Matt Taylor asked for self-nominations and
David Tharp indicates that non-joining members can also be asked later
on. We will notify availability of Vice Chair position.
Approval of 2020 Meeting Minutes and Executive Board responses:
Matthew Taylor introduced minutes and Board responses. Byron Chaves
indicated that many focus points from 2020 were related to improving
journal visibility and impact. Byron walked through five main recommendations
from 2020 meeting. Relayed IAFP-identified concerns and obstacles
to use of these items with respect to financial costs and administrative
costs. Cathy Cutter was asked to indicate any changes needed. Item
3 on copy-editing info has now been included in the current Instructions
for Authors form for new FPT submissions. PC Vasavada asked for
differences in style between JFP and FPT journals. Byron responded
latest ASM style for use in FPT was dated 1991. PC suggested Cathy
Cutter draft an article to highlight the new style requirements and point
out to authors resources. Cathy suggested placing such an article on
FPT website, because many authors are not IAFP members. PCV: Fees
for page charges can keep many from publishing. This means we need to
figure out how to engage with non-members who are wishing to publish
in journal. Didi (IAFP) indicated we can easily add a box to ask whether a
submitting author is an IAFP member. Matt suggested we could develop
a one-page bulleted checklist to help new authors prepare manuscripts
for submission. There was some agreement. Didi indicated JFP has a
checklist in the submit system already.
Byron reviewed item 4 from 2020 meeting and gave background
to new members. Cathy also reiterated her need to be able to execute
authority. Item 5 and DOI usage for FPT paper. Byron gave introduction.
Matt gave introduction on the reason for the DOI usage. He relayed com48
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munication that it's not essential for promotion activity. Summarized report
findings from IAFP staff that investments of funds and time into website
design to enhance user experience. PCV: Not all authors are academics,
and not all are worried about promotion/tenure? Byron suggested there
were reports of more effective financial expenditures, and a desire to
maintain the no cost component of the journal. Byron asked for further
comments; none provided.
Scientific Editor Report, C. Cutter: Cathy highlighted 2020 and 2021
data. She indicated 2021 data are amended for October 2020 to May
2021. Twenty-six papers were submitted during this timeframe. Seven
manuscripts are currently under peer review, so numbers of submissions
for 2021 are strong. She indicated that the journal is on track for typical
annual submissions and acceptance numbers/rates. She also observed
an increased number of international academic submissions have been
accepted. Byron asked whether most international submissions were
from Canada. Cathy indicated 1 paper each from Ethiopia, Egypt, Republic
of Mauritius, and Canada have been accepted. Papers currently under
review are from Turkey, Malaysia, and Brazil. Cathy indicated a similar
trend with comparison to papers submitted in 2020. Cathy also indicated
with COVID-19, reviewers were granted more time to review papers
versus the normal time period (1 month).
New Business: Byron started out the discussion with some possible
visibility ideas for FPT improvement. He asked Donna to discuss. Donna
reported how to approach the free access of papers. Booth for journal at
Annual Meeting? Direct invites for particular authors to publish? Approach
to PDGs and affiliates to prepare publication? Solicit of case studies in
teaching food microbiology. These would certainly increase the visibility
of the content in FPT? How do we reach a larger audience and engage
authors to publish? Donna responded that Cathy does invite authors and
many are successful at getting papers submitted so this is a successful
strategy. Lisa Hovey asked who is the targeted reader? Who's our
audience? PC recommended engaging the developing scientist PDG
to help students get a first publication. STEM focus programs with high
school and middle school opportunities. Send papers of use to them.
Salina Parveen suggested waiving publication fee; Byron indicated it
is free already. Kali Kniel asked if the committee can develop a way to
figure out how it's used? Cathy and Matt reminded the Committee they
did a survey 2 years ago with Faith Critzer to gain some of those data.
Other ideas on international authors.
FPT 2021 award recipients for papers. Donna indicated the authors
will be given a framed certificate at the 2022 meeting or they can be
mailed as needed. Byron gave congratulations to paper authors.
Most-cited Peer-reviewed Research Publication Award: Food Allergy
Risk Communication in Restaurants, Han Wen and Junehee Kwon,
9-10/2016. Most-viewed Peer-reviewed Research Publication Award:
Microbial Contamination of Grocery Shopping Trolleys and Baskets
in West Texas, Alexandra Calle, Brayan D. Montoya, Andrea English,
and Mindy Brashears, 1-2/2020. Most-viewed General Interest Publication
Award: Predictive Models for Food Code Violations, Jim Hartman,
1-2/2020.
ASM Style Guide adoption for FPT and JFP papers. Do we mimic
ASM formatting for references across both JFP and FPT? Donna confirmed
this was the intent. Didi indicated this will be under discussion
for upcoming sessions/meetings. Matt recommended not adopting all
elements of ASM style guide, but focusing on the bibliography.
Laura Strawn nominated herself for the Vice Chair position. Laura
also asked whether DOIs can be author-charged? Lisa Hovey indicates
it is best done as an all-or-nothing model. DOIs for FPT papers will not
necessarily work if they lead to a membership barrier for non-members
or to a website with no access to the paper. Not having a DOI sometimes
leads authors to not cite that article. Laura suggested some authors
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