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a Good Food Safety Performance. " " How to Deal with
Weak Signals in Data Sharing in Regulatory Areas. "
" What Does Data Science Must Know About Food
Science. " " How to Start Data Sharing and Know about
the Legal Issues Involved. " More than eighteen ideas
were collected during the meeting. A webinar series of
ideas were suggested " Learning How to Organize Data
in RStudio. " " How to Translate Food Safety in Date
Science " could be set up as a technical forum.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None
Next Meeting Date: July 14, 2024, Long Beach,
California.
Meeting Adjourned: 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Sarah Murphy.
Developing Food Safety Professionals PDG
Attendees: Amit Morey (Chair), Jill Stuber (ViceChair),
Monica Galleguillos Ackerknecht, Jennifer
Acuff, Christina Allingham, Ranee Anderson, Arzu
Irem Aydogdu, Aeriel Belk, Laura Pineda-Bermudez,
Ledon Black, John Boyce, Kari Bunting, Jessica Burke,
Greg Burnham, Purvi Chatterjee, Pavana Harathy
Chennupati, Dean Chiarelli, Judy Chow, Camryn Cook,
Tracey David, Brenna DeRocili, Minh Duong, Emilio
Esteban, Ellen Evans, Savana Everhart, Mariana
Fernandez, Liane Ford, Tom Ford, Megan Francies,
Connie Freese, Enrique Garcia, Ariel Garsow, Andree
George, Gabriella Gephart, Tia Glave, Abdul Aziz Al
Hajeri, Suzy Hammons, Maria Hansell, Gregory Harter,
Jouman Hassan, Richard Huang, Ahmed Al Kaabi,
Karin Kasper, Gurpreet Kaur, Jordan Kiefer, Margaret
Kirchner, Michala Krakowski, Maureen Kuboka, YueJia
Lee, Juan Ponce De Leon, Joanne Lim, Blanca
Ruiz Llacsahuanga, Marisa Lown, Morgan Madison,
Humberto Maldonado, Chip Manuel, Kyle McCaughan,
Abigail Aba Mensah, Marlee Mims, Ahmed ElMoghazy,
Emefa Monu, Shpresa Musa, Pascale
Pierre, Gabriella Pinto, Jorge Quintanilla Portillo,
Gustavo Reyes, Lisa Robinson, Alyssa Rosenbaum,
Amaryllis Rivera- Santiago, Buddhi Sapkota, Dina
Scott, Sloane Stoufer, Rico Suhalim, Martha SanchezTamayo,
Chayapa Techathuvanan, Lauren Waldman,
Michael Wood, Pagiel Yoo, Kris Young, Galante Yu.
Number of Attendees: 78.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, 3:15 p.m.
Eastern Time, July 16, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Pavana Harathy
Chennupati.
Old Business: Amit Morey welcomed everyone
to the PDG meeting. The Board Updates provided
to Amit were read out to the audience. The Board
recommended the attendees to download the IAFP
app and view the video from the Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Council. The Board also stated that webinars
were a great success during Food Safety Month with
more than 9,000 views and will continue to make it an
annual event. Members who want to be on committees
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can navigate the page " Professional Info/Volunteer
Opportunities. " Attendees were encouraged to sign up
as mentor or mentee via IAFP Connect.
After the Board updates, the minutes from 2022
were presented to the audience (on the screen) and
were approved unanimously. Morey informed the
audience that a total of 15 proposals (7 primary and
8 secondary sponsors) were submitted to IAFP and a
total of 4 proposals were selected (1 primary and 3
secondary sponsored).
New Business: Jill Stuber organized and Tia
Glave moderated a roundtable session on Navigating
Industry Life as a Food Safety Professional. The
panel members were Dr. Michael Wood (Kroger),
Megan Francies (Lamb Weston), and Dr. Chayapa Koi
(OceanSpray). In the interactive session, audience
asked questions about mentorship, building careers,
mid-career pivoting, judging company culture before
accepting the job, navigating unexpected tasks,
gaining trust, and receiving opinions from senior
colleagues among others. The session was very well
attended and received.
Jill Stuber led an exciting activity called Networking
Bingo where the attendees were given a Bingo sheet with
various prompt and each member had to go around and
introduce themselves to others and get to know them.
It was an exciting activity as the audience engaged in a
lively networking event and developed new contacts.
Amit Morey then initiated discussion on roundtable
and symposium proposals. Some of the topics
discussed were on new technologies, food safety jobs
awareness of unique food safety jobs, developing
skills and experience to secure jobs among others. Jill
Stuber developed a link for the audience to send their
proposal ideas which was shared with everyone via a
QR code.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 14, 2024, Long Beach,
California.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:15 p.m.
Food Chemical Hazards and Food Allergy PDG
Attendees: Anthony Adeuya, Dory Worcman
Barninka, Joseph Baumert, Veronica Garcia- Bayo,
April Bishop, Robert Buchanan, Greg Burnham,
Astrid Cariou, Erdogan Ceylan, Chia-Yang Chen,
Michael Ciaramella, Brittany Cooksey, Carol D'Lima,
Melanie Downs, Sofia Santillana Farakos, Sanjit
Fernandes, Tony Flood, T.J. Fu, Steven Gendel, Rick
Goodman, Rocelle Grabarek, Stephen Grove, Fabiana
Guglielmone, Paul Hanlon, Wannes Hugo R. Van
Hassel, Yihan He, Sanaz Hemati, Manki Ho, Nasrin
Honardar, Marti Hua, Brian Izdepski, Youngwoon Kang,
Layal Karam, Andrew Karasick, Rohail Khan, Sally
Klinect, Shannon Koerber, Dave Largey, Quanhong
Li, Girvin Liggans, Yuqian Lou, Todd Masche, Rachel
McEgan, Joseph Meyer, Nathan Mirdamadi, Shpresa
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