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Old Business: Incoming Chair Ataei welcomed attendees, and reviewed
the meeting agenda. Michelle Danyluk provided an update to the PDG
meeting for the main outcomes of the last Board meeting. The major
points were as follows: Encourage PDGs to organize meeting throughout
the year. In addition, the Executive Board encouraged to organize
webinar on relevant topics to PDG. PDG's IAFP liaison can be contacted
for the appropriate support.
The IAFP Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council has now completed
their formation including preparation of a Charter (vision, mission, and
purpose), operating procedures, and Council Member's responsibilities.
Members interested to join the council can contact the IAFP office or
IAFP Board member. The Executive Board is always looking for members
who are interested in serving on IAFP committee or in PDG leadership
role. Interested members can contact the IAFP office or IAFP Board
member.
Adoption of 2020 PDG Minutes: Minutes from the 2020 meeting
were tabled for comments or edits. There were no edits. Motion to adopt
the minutes by all attendees. Minutes adopted. Fatemeh reviewed and
shared this year's sessions that were sponsored by HACCP PDG. 6
proposals were submitted, and 5 were approved and are on the schedule
for the October meeting (two roundtables and three symposia). Fatemeh
introduced Dr. Bala Kottapalli as the incoming Vice-Chair of PDG.
New Business: The outgoing chair (Dr. Deann Akins-Lewenthal) thanked
the whole PDG and also welcomed incoming Chair (Fatemeh Ataei) and
Vice-Chair (Dr. Bala Kottapalli). Fatemeh and Bala thanked Deann for
her contributions and leadership to the PDG. Lone Jespersen (Cultivate
Food Safety) and Carol Wallace (University of Central Lancashire), Title:
How proficient is your HACCP team and why does it matter? PDG 2021
Sponsored Symposia was discussed. Deadline for 2022 submissions was
discussed and proposal ideas.
Recommendations to the Executive Board
1. Recommend approval of Dr. Bala Kottapalli as the newly-appointed
Vice Chair for the HACCP PDG
Next Meeting Date: July 31-August 3, 2022 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Meeting Adjourned: 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Fatemeh Ataei.
International Foods Protection Issues PDG
Attendees: Akhila Vasan, Alvin Lee, Brad Taylor, Caroline Smith DeWaal,
David Tharp, DeAnn Benesh, Diego Darquea, Elisabetta Lambertini,
Elizabeth Demmings, Hasan Nur, Ian Jenson, Isabel Walls, James
Cook, Jason Wan, Jeff Farber, Emilio Esteban, Kang Zhou FAO, Kristen
MacNaughtan, LInda Leake, Lisa Benjamin, Marcel Zwietering, Mary
Anne Amalaradjou, Pamela Wilger, Peter Ben Embarek, Robert Brackett,
Rose Omari, Rosetta Newsome, Santos Garcia, Vidya Ananth, Yuhuan
Chen, and Yvonne Masters,
Board/Staff Present: Emilio Esteban as Board liaison for Roger Cook,
Dina Siedenburg, and David Tharp.
Number of Attendees: 30.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:05 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, June 15,
2021.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Marcel Zwietering, Vice Chairperson.
Ian Jensen (outgoing chair) opened the meeting, welcoming PDG
members and guests and made general introductions. Ian handed over
the chair position to DeAnn Benesh and introduced Marcel Zwietering
as incoming vice-chair. DeAnn thanked Ian for his leadership. Marcel
introduced himself.
Emilio Estaban presented the announcements from the IAFP Executive
Board; This was a challenging year, but many things did go well,
the association is doing well, we have a good group of people. It would
be good to organize meetings and activities also throughout the year,
teleconferences, webinars, etc. Please bring forward ideas and where
possible IAFP staff can help. A Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Council
has been created, people interested in being active in this council are
requested.
DeAnn reviewed and reminded the participants of the Antitrust
guidelines.
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Old Business: The minutes of the 2020 PDG meeting were accepted as
printed in FPT and posted on IAFP Connect. (Motion to accept-Caroline
Smith DeWaal, seconded by Pamela Wilger). Minutes accepted.
Review of Symposia/Roundtables Submitted for the 2020 Annual
Meeting by the PDG (or in collaboration with other PDGs) Seven submissions
were accepted: 3 symposia (S1, S25, S51), and 4 roundtables
(RT4, RT6, RT11, RT12). Presentation dates and times were highlighted
in the IAFP 2021 agenda.
Presentations: Three presenters provided different global perspectives
on safe food supplies: Kang Zhou (FAO)-presented on " Recent
work of JEMRA and FAO on food safety. " Food Safety results in a great
public health burden but additionally gives 110-billion-dollar loss. It is a
human health issue, but also trade and economic issue. " If it is not safe it
is not food. " JEMRA (joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological
Risk Assessment) was established in 2000. This group gives scientific
advice and holds expert meetings based on questions of CODEX.
Recent activities were: Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in meat and
dairy products (June 1-26 2020, 18 experts); Listeria monocytogenes in
RTE foods attribution characterization and monitoring (October 2020-
November 2020, 18 experts)
This year there will be meetings on: Water in fishery and dairy products
(June 14, 2020-July 2, 2021); Hazards in fresh fruits and vegetables
(summer 2021); Allergens (one in 2020 one in 2021)-looking at new
criteria: prevalence, potency, severity; Food safety day: Safe food now
for a Healthy Tomorrow was held June 7, 2021.
Reports published on topics were numbers: 36 (Microbiological
Risk Assessment-Guidance for food); 29 (Microbial safety of lipid-based
ready-to-use foods for management of moderate acute malnutrition and
severe acute malnutritio-Second report); 25 (Risk-based examples and
approach for control of Trichinella spp. and Taenia saginata in meat); 20
(Risk assessment tools for Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus
associated with seafood); plus an FAO guide on risk ranking food safety
risk at the national level;
Peter Ben Embarek (WHO)-presented on the work of WHO and
Food Safety: WHO merged the department of nutrition and food safety
and zoonoses. WHO developed COVID documents that were widely
used: one for authorities and one for industry. Updates will come out in
a revised version the end of this month. There is a guide document on
reducing public health risk in public food markets, focussing on trade of
wild animals: " Keep wild animals away from the market. " There has be
a lot of attention of investigation of COVID source, from the market, but
also other scenarios were evaluated. The lab source is less likely but
could have occurred.
Further strategies were developed to improve food safety, with
5 strategic priorities: strengthening food controls; responses to global
changes; increase use of information for decisions; strengthen engagement
and communication; promote safety both at domestic scale and
international trade
A new handbook was released on the estimation of the burden of
foodborne disease.
There will be a webinar on foodborne burden on June 29, 2020,
13.30-15 CET.
Kristen MacNaughtan (BMGF: Gates foundation)-presented on
advancing food safety: reflections and opportunities. The foundation envisions
a world in which every person has the opportunity to live a healthy
productive live. This requires healthy agricultural systems, children's
heath, etc. For this, an inclusive agricultural transformation is needed
(increase productivity, small holder income, improve nutrition, empower
woman). All aligned with FAO's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG2):
zero hunger. Diets are often poor. Earlier much focus was on aflatoxin
mitigation. After the burden of disease estimates, focus is more general
on also decreasing other hazards, mitigating risks, improving policy and
the regulatory environment. It is needed to achieve for this goal to have
quality, availability, utility of food safety data, and evidence and access to
nutritional foods by improving food safety, improving national and state
level resource allocation and policies. There is cooperation with the UK
department of development. It started with aflatoxins and moved more
now to pathogens. The focus on 7 countries and at Salmonella, EHEC,
Campylobacter, Brucella, and Listeria.
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