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Ahnna Schulte, Frank Segers, Tomasz Seliwiorstow,
Chris Sharps, Anru Shen, Katherine Sierra, Manpreet
Singh, Larry Steenson, Kyle Stoutenberg, Leslie
Thompson-Strehlow, Rico Suhalim, Dushyanth Kumar
Tammineni, Vianca TashiIguano, Abdullatif Tay, Deepa
Thiagarajan, Aljosa Trmcic, Jennifer Turpin, Aaron
Uesugi, Francisco Garces-Vega, Benjamin Warren,
Julie Weller, Anett Winkler, Wenqing (Wennie) Xu,
Shuopeng Yang, Kris Young, Chee Zheng.
Number of Attendees: 92.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, 1:00 p.m., July
16, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Laure Pujol.
Old Business: Minutes of the July 31, 2022 meeting
were approved by unanimous consent. Sessions
supported by the PDG this year were reviewed.
New Business: Kavita Shripati Patil, student liaison,
presented Student PDG activity. Manpreet Singh did
some IAFP announcements, and AntiTrust Guidelines
were reviewed with the whole group. Presentation
of our guest speaker Monty Bohanan; Associate
Director, Sanitation, Leprino Foods talking about " Dry
Clean ONLY: Philosophy, Methodology, and Techniques. "
Two students from University of Arkansas presented
their work: Arshpreet Kaur Khattra, Masters student in
Food Science, presented " Use of gaseous ozone to
improve the microbial Safety of spices, seeds, and
nuts " and Manita Adhikari, Ph.D. student in Food
Science, presented " Characterization of low-moisture
food persistent bacterial populations (LMF PBP) and
impacts of nutrient type, moisture ratio and relative
humidity. " Symposia/Roundtable/Workshop ideas were
discussed in the whole group meeting, based
on input that was collected in advance of the meeting
via an online survey (4 ideas initially). Other ideas
came out from the audience and were integrated in
the list of ideas. Then, 4 work groups were formed and
engaged in further discussion on each topic. Broad
topics include: (1) Outbreak prevention for LWAF, (2)
Surrogate acceptability, (3) Methods for conducting low
water activity studies, (4) " How to " ... for low moisture
system improvement (workshop).
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 14, 2024, Long Beach,
California.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Bradley Marks.
Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG
Attendees: Melvin Carter (Chair), Achyut Adhikari,
Basim Alohali, Hany Anany, John Van Arsdale, Cynthia
Austin, S. Balamurugan, Grace Bannister, Ronny
Barrera, Kingsley Bentum, Preetha Biswas, Rucha
Boralkar, Mick (Joseph M.) Bosilevac, Alex Brandt,
Simon Burns, Carmen Cantu, Maria Jessa Cardel,
Katie Stolte-Carroll, Diego Casas, Emily Cason, John
Kevin Castro, Patrice Chablain, Tawanchai Chaiyont,
Evan Chaney, Sneha Chhabra, Jeff Chilton, Judy
Chow, Margaret (Peg) Coleman, Kim Cook, Roger
Cook, Carl Custer, Michael Day, Dale Dexter, James
Drescher, Vikrant Dutta, Constanza Vergara, Emilio
Esteban, Andrea Etter, Connie Freese, Janejira
Fuangpaiboon, Alberto Garre, Kerri Gehring, Binita
Goshali, Ben Graves, Matt Guo, Sam Hadden, Abdul
Aziz Al Hajeri, Suzy Hammons, Fabienne Hamon,
Eelco Heintz, Evan Henke, Shauna Henley, Ian
Hildebrandt, Richard Huang, John Jarosh, Ryan Karns,
Erin Kealey, Pete Kennedy, Shige Koseki, Kento
Koyama, Kunihiro Kubota, Heath LaFevers, Hoi Mei
Lau, Aaron Lavallee, Pedro Arriaga Lorenzo, Terence
Martin, Rafael Martinez, Anne-Marie Masella, Ryan
Matsuda, John McBride, Katie Rose McCullough,
Lorraine McIntyre, Minto Michael, Michael Michel, Kara
Mikkelson, Jesse Miller, Eric Moorman, Amit Morey,
Juan Morla, Nanje Gowda Na, Claudia Narvaez,
Cecil Barnett-Neefs, Masaru Ochiai, Redd Ochoa,
Kathleen O'Donnell, Cory Ortego, Andrew Pantano,
Randall Phebus, Marcos Sanchez Plata, Rodrigo
Portillo, Simone Potkamp, Joy Saha, Deborah Sattely,
Linda Saucier, Brooke Schwartz, Paula Schwarz, Nikki
Shariat, Ofer Shoham, Subash Shrestha, Niraj Shrestha,
Amy Siceloff, Jared Smith, Leslie Thompson-Strehlow,
Dushyanth Kumar Tammineni, Harshavardhan
Thippareddi, Kate Thomas, Brayan Montoya Torres,
Rachael Trott, Socrates Trujillo, Mark Turner, Isabel
Walls, Purity Wambui, Eric Wilhelmsen, Jodi Williams,
Anett Winkler, Ivy Yan, Jingbin Zhang.
Number of Attendees: 115.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, 9:03 a.m.
Eastern Time, July 16, 2023.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Vanessa Whitmore.
Old Business: Dr. Melvin Carter, PDG Chair, called
the meeting to order at 9:03 am Eastern time. He
began the meeting by presenting the 2021 Meat and
Poultry Safety and Quality PDG meeting minutes from
the June 8, 2021, meeting. There were no changes or
amendments. Dr. John Jarosh motioned to approve the
2021 minutes as is, and Dr. Katie Rose McCollough
seconded. The minutes were unanimously approved.
Dr. Carter introduced the Vice-Chair nominee, Dr.
Alexandra Calle, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
at Texas Tech University in the School of Veterinary
Medicine. There were no objections, and the PDG
will make recommendations to the IAFP Board for
approval. Dr. Carter shared the IAFP Executive Board
announcements with the membership.
New Business: Dr. Carter introduced the first
speaker, Ms. Vanessa Whitmore, a master's student
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who gave the
updates from the Student PDG. She overviewed the
three main events the Student PDG has put together:
The Meet Your Favorite Food Scientist series of
chats, the 3-Minute Thesis Competition, and Proposal
Submissions for the IAFP Annual Meeting. If interested
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