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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Food Protection Trends Management Committee
Attendees: Byron Chaves, Clara Diekman, Jason Scheffler,
Yuhuan Chen, Yaohua Betty Feng, Camryn Cook, Laura
Strawn, Cathy Cutter, Matthew Moore, Daniel Weller, Montserrat
Iturriaga, Amarat Simonne, Fred Breidt, Salina Parveen,
Purnendu Vasavada, Peyman Fatemi.
Board and Staff Present: Emilio Esteban, Lisa Hovey,
David Tharp.
Number of Attendees: 19.
Meeting Called to Order: 2:03 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday,
July 3, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Camryn Cook, Student Liaison.
Old Business: The 2021 recommendations to the Board were
discussed as follows: (1) Incorporating DOI numbers to FPT
peer-reviewed articles which is beneficial for academics. On
that note, academic submissions represent over 75% of FPT
accepted articles. (2) Dr. Laura Strawn was approved as the
Committee's Vice Chair and is now serving her second year in
this position; (3) Format changes to FPT references list based on
JFP's were proposed and approved in 2021. With JFP migrating
to Elsevier, the format may change and FPT will reassess in
2023; and (4) A checklist for authors was approved to be included
with the instructions for authors to facilitate submission in the
Allen Press system and reduce burden on IAFP staff.
New Business: Scientific Editor, Dr. Catherine Cutter, reported
that submission numbers declined slightly during the COVID-19
pandemic. Most submission come from academics, with little
industry and government representation in FPT peer-reviewed
papers. Additionally, 75% of submissions are domestic.
The submission system does not have a place to recommend
reviewers. It is strongly suggested that this is added so that
authors can provide names of potential reviewers to help the
Scientific Editor allocate manuscripts if the expertise is not
reflected in the Editorial Board or if no members of said board
are available to review.
Some demographic information is collected by other journals
upon submission of a manuscript. A discussion ensued regarding
collecting demographic information from FPT authors to then
feed into the IAFP DEI Council data. However, at this point, we
do not know what the utility of such data or the legalities would
be associated with collecting the data. The Committee will reach
out to the DEI Council directly for thoughts.
Byron Chaves' term as chair of the Committee ends at the
beginning of the 2023 meeting in Toronto, with Laura Strawn then
taking over as chair. During spring 2023, we will be sending out
a form for nominations for the Vice Chair position to start at the
beginning of the 2023 Annual Meeting.
Recommendations to the Board:
1. Because of ethics review and clearance, federal employees
may not be able to serve their entire 3 years on the
committee. Therefore, it is recommended that the term
begins when the ethics review is clear. Potentially move up
committee invitations to the beginning of the year rather than
the current invitation which is in October.
2. Recommendation to adopt the same formatting as JFP once
the switch to Elsevier begins so the same style guide can be
used for both journals.
3. Make a call for Case Studies where we could open up or
reach out to specific people based on things that have
happened recently in the food industry.
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4. Call to papers: approach and refine later but reach out to
commodity boards/trades, symposium, industry, affiliates,
and government partners and see how we can get authors
from those organizations.
5. Make a recommendation to include a blank where authors or
editorial board members can suggest reviewers. Create an
invitation email if the person is not on the editorial board.
Journal of Food Protection Management Committee
Attendees: Matthew Moore (Chair), Ian Young (Vice Chair),
Fred Breidt, Elliot Ryser, Lauren Jackson, Arpita Aditya, Doris
D'Souza, Martin Duplessis, Judy Luther, Morgane Dagot, Joshua
Gurtler, Cathy Cutter, Panos Skandamis, Ana Allende Prieto,
Armitra Jackson-Davis, Anderson Sant'Ana, Byron Chaves, Kali
Kniel, Sanjay Gummalla, Patricia Rule, Laurel Dunn, Manivannan
Selladurai, Anett Winkler, Emilio Esteban, Mickey Parish, Gary
Acuff, Alvin Lee, Bala Kottapalli.
Board/Staff Present: Ruth Petran, David Tharp, Lisa Hovey,
Dina Siedenburg.
Number of Attendees: 32.
Meeting Called to Order: 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Sunday,
July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Arpita Adtiya.
Old Business: The meeting started at 10 AM. Matthew Moore
distributed the meeting agenda and gave a brief introduction.
Outgoing Chair Fred Breidt provided general remarks on the
JFP Committee. The Chairman requested the committee
members to introduce themselves. Following the introduction,
the chairman sought the approval of the Minutes of the meeting
of 2021 from the committee members. A motion was passed to
approve the minutes of the meeting of 2021 and was seconded
by the committee members. A welcome to new committee
members (Ana Allende Prieto, Vidya Ananth, Laurel Dunn, Martin
Duplessis, Lisa Gorski, and Ian Young) was provided, and a
thank you to exiting committee members (Fred Briedt, Angela
Fraser, Sanjay Gummalla, Cheng-An Hwang, Barbara Ingham,
and Jeffrey Lejeune) was also given.
The scientific editors report was provided by Dr. Panagiotis
Skandamis, who briefly appraised the status of publication in
JFP. He mentioned that there is a change from Allen press to
a new platform for the publication process (Elsevier). Faster
publication from 2019 to 2021 (due to the introduction of an
online publication system in JFP) occurred. He added that printed
manuscripts add a month more to the publication process.
He also reported that 255 articles were published in issue 83,
and 242 articles in issue 84 in 2021. He noted that JFP has
seen decreased numbers in articles published since 2019 and
mentioned that it is contradictory to see JFP seeing a decrease
in articles published, despite seeing an increase in the journal
impact factor over the years. The committee members were
of agreement that the pandemic likely impacted the number of
publications. There was decrease in publication time due to the
shift toward online publication system and 64% of articles were
published online in 2021. The publication time was 8-9 months in
2019 until acceptance, and was reduced to 4-5 months in 2021,
however delays from the authors during the revision lengthened
publication time. Of articles the articles published in JFP, 53%
were from U.S. researchers.
It was reported that as of July 2022, 216 manuscripts
were submitted to the journal, which is less than the previous
year at the same time (266) and is unlikely to cross the last
year mark by the end of the year. However, the last few weeks
have seen an increased number of publications. JFP has been
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