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in Louisville. Encourage PDGs to organize webinars or webinar
series throughout the year. In addition, the Executive Board
encouraged to organize webinar on relevant topics to PDG.
Board requested to consider DEI principles as ideas for 2023
symposia are being developed. The Executive Board is excited to
announce JFP's transition to Elsevier. Finally, 2023 meeting will
be held in Toronto hence, members are encouraged to prepare
travel documentation (if applicable) to avoid any delays in visa
processing.
Adoption of 2021 PDG Minutes: Minutes from the 2021
meeting were tabled for comments or edits. Motion to adopt the
minutes was proposed by Lori Ledenbach and was seconded
by Dr. Carol Wallace. Minutes adopted (there were no edits).
Fatemeh reviewed and shared this year's sessions that were
sponsored by HACCP PDG. 11 proposals were submitted, and
4 were approved and are on the schedule for the IAFP 2022
Annual Meeting (1 roundtables, 2 short symposia and 1 full
symposium).
New Business: Fatemeh requested nominations of election of
new Vice Chair. More details will be announced via IAFP Connect
later this year. Dr. Govindaraj Dev Kumar, Assistant Professor
at University of Georgia Center for Food Safety discussed flour
safety approaches to mitigate pathogenic E. coli risk during flour
processing. The presentation was positively received. Please
refer to the slides of the presentation (provided along with
these meeting minutes) for more details. PDG 2023 sponsored
symposia was discussed. Fatemeh also requested review the
symposia proposals that were not approved and do one of the
following: (1) Incorporate program committee feedback and resubmit
or (2) Convert these topics into webinars. Deadline for
2023 submissions was also discussed (October 4, 2022).
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Request recording of PDG meeting.
2. Scheduling HACCP PDG meetings such that it doesn't
conflict with other PDGs (ex: Sanitation, Auditing) that also
have common audience/Members or that deal with similar
topics of concern.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 10:17 a.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Fatemeh Ataei.
International Foods Protection Issues PDG
Attendees: DeAnn Benesh (Chair), Marcel Zwietering (Vice
Chair) David Crabtree, Kevin Edwards, James Cook, Evan
Henke, DeAnn Benesh, Patrick Bird, Aaron Dudley, Franciel Ikeji,
Rosie Newsome, Kang Zhou, Arie Havelaar, Kate Meck, Jeff
Farber, Katie Swanson, Tania Martinez, Isabel Walls, Maayan
Abramovich, Guy Tenenbaum, Erin Crowley, Xiangwu Nou,
Brad Taylor, Steven Gendel, Amarat Simonne, Christie Cheng,
Sanjana Laobangdisa, Susan Teegardin, Caroline Smith DeWaal,
Jorge Pinto Ferreira, Mark Carter, Leon Gorris, Bob Banerjee,
Jonathan Brackahn, Jeffrey Read, Teresa Fox, Deon Mahoney,
Jenny Scott.
Number of Attendees: 38.
Meeting Called to Order: 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Marcel Zwietering, Vice
Chairperson; Aaron Dudley, Student Liaison.
DeAnn Benesh opened the meeting, welcoming PDG
members and participants introduced themselves. Aaron Dudley
introduced the Student PDG activities and mentioned specifically
three priority ones being a) meet your favorite food scientist, b)
3-minute thesis competition and c) proposal submission. Please
be active in engaging with students. If you want to contribute
please contact either Aaron, our student liaison (adudley4@
bulldogs.aamu.edu) or Claire Murphy (chair person Student PDG
cmarik@vt.edu). DeAnn reviewed and reminded the participants
of the Antitrust guidelines.
Old Business:
Related to the Minutes: Recommendations to the Board:
Marcel Zwietering was approved as Vice Chair and the option
of hybrid conferences was not followed for 2022, however
presentations are available for viewing after the Annual Meeting.
There were no comments on minutes of the 2021 PDG meeting
as printed in FPT and posted on IAFP Connect. Motion to accept
by Jeff Farber, seconded by Arie Havelaar. Minutes approved.
Seven PDG submissions were accepted, five symposia and
two roundtables: RT3 (COVID-19), S21 (COVID-19), S27 (What
to Expect When Exporting) S30 (Food Safety Africa), S36 (AMR
in Middle East and North Africa), S45 (QMRA for LMIC), SS1
(Get-connected market).
DeAnn Benesh gave an Update from the Regulatory
System Summaries Group: Proposed originally by Ian Jensen
in 2019 and the idea was supported by the Food Law PDG
(Rosetta Newsome). In monthly meetings progress is followed
in the designing of the template and the filling in for the various
countries. The first overview was produced by Jeff Farber and
was reviewed and approved by Health Canada, Canadian Food
Inspection Agency and the Public Health Agency. Further ideas
were to potentially involve Bob Bracket (he has a slide deck
for US legislation, idea Katie Swanson), and additionally Arie
Havelaar proposed to include the African Union, and potentially
include Barbara Kowalcyk for data of Ethiopia. Caroline Smith
DeWaal mentioned that documents for Nigeria were started.
Also,Tanja Martinez (check) mentioned her organization is doing
a lot of work In Nigeria. Caroline suggested that connection to the
Food Systems Dashboard could also provide information.
Mark Carter (board liaison), presented the announcements
from the IAFP Executive Board: There are around 3000 attendees,
about 80% of Pre-COVID attendance, also exhibitors are about
80% of normal. In making proposals consider the DEI-principles
(Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) consider developing webinar
series. Also consider donating for the foundation (the 4 for 40
campaign), this gives support for publications and meeting
attendance. The mentor match initiative is working actively. JFP
is in transition to Elsevier and becomes an OA journal (starting
in January 2023). In 2023 the Annual Meeting will be in Toronto.
Please be prepared and check your passport validity and
potential visa requirements.
Kang Zhou (Food Safety Officer, Food System and Food
Safety Division, FAO). Controlling the burden of food borne
disease is essential for public heath, economy and food security.
Prevention is key in this control. In scientific expert meetings,
the advice needs to be sound, responsible, objective, fair,
transparent, and inclusive. There is a need for, for example,
geographical spread and gender balance. Advice goes to Codex
(198 countries and 1 union).
Kang gave an update on recent work of JEMRA and FAO:
In 2021 two meetings took place on microbiological quality of
water use in food production (focused on fisheries and dairy;
fresh produce was already done in 2019), 4 meetings on hazards
in fresh fruits and vegetables. In these cases, the chain analysis
is going from farm to fork. There are planned meetings on
Campylobacter (next year) and Salmonella (this year September
2022) in chicken meat, and QMRA of Listeria food (leafy greens,
cantaloupe/rock melon, frozen vegetables, RTE seafood (24-28
October, 15 experts selected out of 100). 3 meetings took place
on allergens, and one is planned for 2022. Priority allergens
are cereal (gluten), crustaceans, egg, fish, peanuts, milk, tree
nuts, sesame (soy deleted, sesame included). A paper came
out about JEMRA in the journal " foods " (TwentyYearsJEMRA).
Furthermore, 4 reports in the MRA-series were published no's
26, 27, 35 and 37.
26: Ranking of low-moisture foods in support of microbiological
risk management: Meeting report and systematic review
27: Microbiological hazards in spices and dried aromatic herbs
35: Advances in science and risk assessment tools for Vibrio
parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus associated with seafood
37: Safety and quality of water used with fresh fruits and
vegetables
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