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Old Business: About the recommendation made
to the Board last year of asked if there is an activity
of IAFP at World Food Safety Day (June 7) since it
is perfectly matching with our mission. The Board
response was IAFP had recognized World Food Safety
Day in past years through social media and mention in
the IAFP Report. Efforts will be made to promote this
event earlier and more widely.
During 2022 - 2023, 3 webinars were organized
by this PDG, where one of them was on June 7 to
commemorate World Food Safety Day, also the idea
of have all the webinars open during one month in
2023 came from this PDG and was a very successful
initiative.
New Business: Marcel Zwietering mentioned that
proposals from this PDG are encouraged, and he
and the Vice-Chair are available for help. Submission
deadline is October 3, so he invited to not wait until
the last minute and communicate and reach others
through IAFP Connect.
Regarding the activities between the Annual
Meetings for this PDG, it was proposed for moving
the meetings every 3 months, to increase attendance.
Given the success of the webinars, the PDG will
continue organizing webinar sessions with the
proposals that are not accepted by the program
committee or other topics. Finally, Pamela Wilger
talked about her experience of being Mentor and
mentioned how fruitful is for both mentors and
mentees. All members of the PDG are invited to join
the mentor match program.
The Food Protection Trends (FPT) journal is now
open, and everybody was invited to send articles, also
it was informed that once the food regulatory system
country profile is ready it will be submitted to the FPT.
Ideas for 2024 Program Submission
Arie Havelaar: WHO updates on the Global Burden
of Foodborne disease, to present an update of results.
Elizabeth, proposed to also show the results of
projects in Africa about foodborne diseases and other
in the Philippines.
Eric Stevens: A session dedicated to Intersectoral
sector communications and scientific publications
information impact, how to communicate international
organizations scientific advises?
Arie Havelaar: Session on infant foods, powdery
formula, e.g., Low-moisture guidance by FDA, or
more globally about breast milk contamination and
environmental contamination, labelling issues, storage
on breast milk, and come back to reportable diseases.
More global perspectives. Leon Gorris: One session on
thinking on how to assess and manage risk across the
food safety chain, in all the dimensions.
Lisa: Session on Improving food safety in traditional
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tives on behavioral changes, especially where regulatory
oversight is not as prominent, so behavioral
changes are important.
What happens with the revising policies, how the
changes affect the outbreaks, testing in a global scale.
Other topic may be sustainability issues and climate
change, how food safety is going to look in 10 or 20
years, ICMSF is also working on that, a new book.
Leon Gorris mentioned that several participants had
problems in obtaining a visa even while they applied for
visa 6 or 9 months in advance.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend approval of Constanza
Vergara Escobar as Vice-Chair of the
International Food Protection Issues PDG.
2. Take initiative to speed-up visa applications
for many international participants, either as
IAFP or jointly with other scientific associations.
3. Ask the Executive Board to host a session
where is possible to connect PDGs where
broader links can be made, including the highlevel
views across the board.
4. Compliment the Executive Board for the
initiatives of making the webinars available
in June for free which gave access to less
privileged people and for make JFP open
access.
Next Meeting Date: July 14, 2024, Long Beach,
California.
Meeting Adjourned: 10:32 a.m.
Chairperson: Marcel Zwietering.
Low-Water Activity Foods PDG
Attendees: Bradley Marks (Chair), Laure Pujol
(Vice-Chair), Jennifer Acuff, Manita Adhikari, John Allan,
Nathan Anderson, John Bassett, Marianne Bellot,
Teresa Bergholz, Larry Beuchat, Patrick Bird, Preetha
Biswas, Micah Black, Jared Bock, Montgomery
Bohanan, Ariel Buehler, Greg Burnham, Juliany Rivera
Calo, Austin Cary, Michaela Cash, Erdogan Ceylan,
Yuhuan Chen, Shihyu (Andrew) Chuang, Catherine
Chubb, Polly Courtney, Ashley Cunningham, Devin
Daeschel, Sofia Santillana Farakos, Jeff Farber, Ben
Graves, Luis Guzman, Matthew Hahs, Nicolette Hall,
Lauren Hamilton, Ian Hildebrandt, Kristen Hunt, Keith
Ito, Pete Kennedy, Arshpreet Kaur Khattra, Jordan
Kiefer, Ian Klug, Jeffrey Kornacki, Shige Koseki,
Katherine Kotrola, Hoi Mei Lau, Xiyang Liu, Shaunti
Luce, Michele Manuzon, Christopher McNamara,
Alma Perez-Mendez, Gerardo Morantes, Amit Morey,
Steven Murphy, Nanje Gowda Na, Kasey Nelson,
Michael O'Rourke, Scott Osborne, Kavita Patil,
Laurie Post, Shivaprasad Doddabematti Prakash, Cat
Quick, Andreja Rajkovic, Kaylee Rumbaugh, Deepti
Salvi, Buddhi Sapkota, Michele Sayles, Scott Sayles,
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