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Additional Topics included feedback from the group on our
monthly PDG meeting.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend a later time for our annual PDG meeting.
2. Consider subsidizing the cost for attending a workshop to
increase attendance. The current costs are prohibitive for
some members.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 16, 2022, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Chairperson: Evan Rosen.
Food Law PDG
Attendees: Melanie Neumann (Chair), Eric Edmunds (Vice
Chair), James Cook, Brian Perry, Cory Ortego, Joelle Williams,
Rosie Newsome, Kate Meck, Eric Stevens, Brian Ramsaur,
Lauren DiMenna, Leonard Ogomo, Wendy Bigala, Rose Omari,
Jeffrey Read, Jack Cooper, Anthony Flood, Mario Leone, Tania
Martinez, Leslie Hintz, Carl Katz, Vanessa Cranford, Daniel
Sohier, Betsy Booren, Barbara Masters, Weifan Wu, Kaylee
Farmer, Katherine Qu, Weilin Shelver, Alicia Ford, Gayatri
Rajashekhar Dhulappanavar, Aaron Dudley, Tim Gillam, Tina
Gettis, Jack Cooper, Susan Teegardin, Rosie Newsome, Jennifer
Lott, Maryana Glavan, Joanna Griffiths, Xinhui Li, Lauren
DiMenna, Jeannie Kim, Mario Leone, Jennifer Burke, Michelle
Kotler, Bassam Annous, Shuopeng Yang, Xuetong Fan, Yifan
Cheng, Deborah Hutchins, Frank Velez.
Number of Attendees: 52.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:05 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July
31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Eric Edmunds.
Old Business: The meeting was called to order and all
attendees were welcomed to the meeting. All attendees then
introduced themselves and provided information as to their
interests relating to food law. The tentative agenda was reviewed
and approved with no changes. The Antitrust Guidelines were
read and discussed.
Minutes from last year's meeting were reviewed and
approved. One clarification was made to the group to clarify that
the IAFP Board does not approve the minutes in their entirety, but
only reviews the recommendations to the board before approving
those recommendations.
An update on the Regulatory Systems Summaries project
was provided by Rosie Newsome. An example of the systems
summary was provided and a general timeline was discussed. A
request for additional volunteers to participate in the project was
made with several PDG members showing interest. Discussion
included ideas on how to best address these issues moving
forward. An opportunity to do more comparative roundtables at
future IAFP conferences to discuss specific topics such as food
defense and novel food regulations was discussed, particularly
with reference to differences between the US and EU regulatory
systems. A next phase of the project was discussed to begin
breaking down the systems summary into more commodity/
product specific comparisons. Additional resources and the
need to have a person from the relevant jurisdictions review the
information for accuracy were discussed.
Food Law PDG sponsored proposals for this IAFP
conference were discussed showing which proposals were
accepted or rejected.
New Business: An IAFP Board liaison update was not
provided during the meeting as they were not available
however updates were provided in writing after the meeting
that included attendance numbers, reminders to submit PDG
minutes, development and submission of symposia for 2023,
and opportunities for webinars or webinar series throughout the
year. There is also a reminder that next year's meeting will be in
Toronto, Canada and that members should verify that they have
current passports and that early application for a visa should be
considered by members if needed.
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Student PDG updates were provided, encouraging members
to participate in both the 3-minute thesis competition and the
opportunity to encourage student develop through the meet a
scientist program through the student PDG.
Ideas for the 2023 IAFP Annual Meeting Symposia,
Roundtables, and Workshops were discussed. Discussion
and topics included: plastic food packaging and environmental
considerations, green/sustainability claims and review of FTC
green guides, food waste and how it applies to food safety, food
systems governance, verification of food safety/food laws along
the supply chain in relation to potential ongoing supply chain
disruptions, updates on lawsuits and litigation in the food industry,
remote inspections from a regulatory and GFSI perspective, the
future of information sharing and confidentiality issues.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:58 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July 31,
2022.
Chairperson: Melanie Neumann.
Food Packaging PDG
Attendees: Tony Jin (Chair), Tania Martinez (Vice Chair), Weilin
Shelver, Alicia Ford, Gayatri Rajashekhar Dhulappanavar, Aaron
Dudley, Tim Gillam, Tina Gettis, Jack Cooper, Susan Teegardin,
Rosie Newsome, Jennifer Lott, Maryana Glavan, Joanna
Griffiths, Xinhui Li, Lauren DiMenna, Jeannie Kim, Mario Leone,
Jennifer Burke, Michelle Kotler, Bassam Annous, Shuopeng
Yang, Xuetong Fan, Yifan Cheng, Deborah Hutchins, Frank
Velez.
Number of Attendees: 28.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:15 p.m. Sunday July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Tania Martinez.
Antitrust Statements from the IAFP were read by current
Chair Tony Jin.
An IAFP Board Liaison was not able to make it to the
meeting for an IAFP update. The update from board member'
email was read by Tony.
A student liaison also updated information from student PDG.
The outgoing Chair Kimberly Yeager was not able to come to
the meeting for health reasons. Tony, on behalf of all members,
expressed attitude to her for her hard work for the past two years
and wish she fully recovery soon.
Chair Tony Jin and Vice Chair Tania Martinez were
introduced.
Old Business: Minutes from the last meeting held on June 30,
2021 are available at https://www.foodprotection.org/get-involved/
professional-development-groups/food-packaging-pdg/. No
members objected to the acceptance of the meeting minutes
from the meeting of June 30, 2021.
IAFP Connect Food Packaging PDG Community was
mentioned again-and that IAFP Connect is the only means
of communication among members of the PDG. The members
were reminded that the group was given information last year
by Tony about IAFP Connect and how to log in and access our
community, and that this information would be shared again in the
meeting minutes. (Link: https://connect.foodprotection.org/home;
Food Packaging PDG Community: https://connect.foodprotection.
org/communities/community-home/digestviewer?communitykey=
246716cf-70bf-459e-bd79-93aef8c33987&tab=digestviewer);
For our annual PDG meeting, we welcomed Jack Cooper,
Executive Director for ADFPI, who gave a special presentation,
regarding Improperly discarded plastic food packaging. Interest
in this topic is high and there were a lot of discussion. The
packaging sustainability and safety will be the main topics for
2023 Annual Meeting.
New Business: Packaging PDG Symposia/Roundtables
selected for 2022 IAFP Meeting: None was accepted by IAFP for
this year.
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