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Number of Attendees: 21
Meeting Called to Order: 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time,
Wednesday, August 19, 2023
Minutes Recording Secretary: Tamara Ford.
Old Business: The outgoing committee members
Pam Wilger, Angela Shaw, Ramin Khaksar, Manan
Sharma, and Paul Hanlon were recognized for their
service.
New Business: The meeting began with
introductions. New members, Ben Miller, Lauren
Jackson, and Matt Taylor were welcomed to the
committee. Tamara explained the process for the
2023 submissions and the timeline was reviewed. The
review process will be adapted to met the growing
number of session proposals.
Both of the items given to the Executive Board for
approval were passed at the May Board Meeting.
1. Tamara Ford discussed the current Program
Committee process and the concern over
proposals not getting proper review due to the
volume of proposals and the tight clustering
of scores. A sub-committee of the Program
Committee submitted a proposal that includes a
two-phase system of review and evaluation. This
adds an extra layer to the reviews in the fall.
2. Food Protection Resource Marketplace
Proposal, Tamara presented a proposal from
a group of Program Committee Members for
a new category of abstract submissions for
IAFP 2024. The " Food Protection Resource
Marketplace " is for displaying newly developed
and free resources. These items must be freely
available and not commercialized or for-profit.
The overall evaluation of the IAFP 2023 scientific
program was positive. No significant changes need to
be made next year. The Program Committee heard a
few complaints of overlap of topics. The Committee
discussed the difficulty in avoiding overlap, but will
always try to take a careful look at the final schedule.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: TBD (Fall Conference Call)
Meeting Adjourned: 8:28 a.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Francisco Diez.
3-A Committee on Sanitary Procedures
Attendees: April Bishop, Sophie Canobio, Austin
Cary, Shihyu (Andrew) Chuang, Nathan Decker, Carlos
Gonzalez Ducker, Dan Erickson, Makenzie Flach, Rick
Heiman, Sanjay Kumar, Xiangwu Nou, Amrit Pal,
Timothy Rugh, Angelica Sanchez, Katie Satterthwaite,
Manan Sharma, Steven Stiefel, Mark Susanek, Dimitri
Tavernarakis, Patrick Wouters, Chee Zheng.
Number of Attendees: 21.
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Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, 10:45 a.m.
Eastern Time, July 16, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: None.
Old Business: None.
New Business: Tim Rugh gave a presentation: 3-A
Standards and Practices.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 14, 2024, Long
Beach, California.
Meeting Adjourned: NA.
Chairperson: NA.
Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness (CCFI)
Members Present: Michael Batz (Chair), Bob
Buchanan, Carl Custer, Laura Gieraltowski (newly
elected Vice-Chair), Kari Irvin (Secretary), Margaret
Kirchner, Stacey Klinzing, Ewen Todd, Ian Young,
Melanie Firestone, Dan Weller.
Board/Staff Present: Ruth Petran, Manan Sharma.
Visitors: Mansour Samadpour.
Number of Attendees: 13.
Meeting Called to Order: 8:05 a.m., Sunday, July
16, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Kari Irvin.
Old Business: Minutes from the 2022 meeting were
approved. This year's CCFI sponsored symposia were
discussed. One proposed symposia that was not
accepted was subsequently proposed as a webinar,
but the submitter never received any automated follow
up, or email responses from staff or the Webinar
Committee. This resulted in a recommendation to
the Board. The committee discussed the Board's
responses to last year's recommendations.
New Business: The committee continued its
discussion from last year on the Ewen C.D. Todd
Award. After discussing the current description and
criteria, the committee decided to move forward with
proposing some revisions to the award description
to better reflect the original intent of the award to
acknowledge work in foodborne disease epidemiology
and outbreak response activities. The committee
also discussed that while the Ewen C.D. Todd Award
celebrates a lifetime of accomplishments, there is a
need to acknowledge the efforts of junior and mid-level
career professionals in the field of outbreak response,
foodborne disease epidemiology, and similar work
in public health. A small group of CCFI members will
further develop this idea over the next year in the
hopes of proposing a new award next year.
The committee discussed potential webinars. CCFI
will move forward to re-submit the previously submitted
symposium on FSMA 204 (discussed in old business)
as a webinar. The committee also discussed the CCFI
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