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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
JFP General Interest manuscript on best practices around education from
farm to farm, and resubmission of a pre-conference around Food Safety
Education in Practice: Evidence-Based Techniques to Build Inclusive, SkillBased
Curriculum and Evaluation Metrics.
New Business: Students PDG updates: t-shirts sale and student luncheon.
Vice-Chair nominations are to be sent to Dr. Ellen Shumaker for voting
this fall. Sponsored sessions were highlighted, where we went from 13%
to 30% accepted from 2023 to 2024. Updates from STOP Foodborne
Illness, the Partnership for Food Safety Education, and the International
Food Information Council were provided. These groups started our PDG
discussion around storytelling as a tool for food safety education, where
all PDG members had an opportunity to share their successes and best
practices when using storytelling.
FSIS shared that there are internships for students available.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Avoid the Food Safety Education and Culture PDGs meeting in the
same time slot.
2. If approved, avoid the Nutrition & Food Safety Education and Culture
PDGs meeting at the same time.
3. Could similar PDGs combine meetings every few years together?
4. Could communications, outreach, and education switch up and not
end on a Wednesday?
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 9:52 a.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Dr. Shauna C. Henley
Fruit and Vegetable Safety & Quality PDG
Attendees: Enrique Garcia (Chair), Govindaraj Dev Kumar (Vice Chair),
Achyut Adhikari, Grace Akumu, Sonia Almeria, Brienna Anderson, George
Anderson, Samir Assar, Cameron Bardsley, Rebecca Bell, Elizabeth Bihn,
Davis Blasini, Benjamin Blouin, Samantha Bolten, Anna Brover, David
Buckley, Laurel Burall, Kellie Burris, Roberto Canchola, Zonia Elizabeth
Caro-Carvajal, Vijay Chhetri, LeAnn Chuboff, Donna Clements, Kerry Cooper,
Sarah Cope, Faith Critzer, Sitara Cullinan, Bryant Davenport, Brenna
DeRocili, Gayatri Rajashekhar Dhulappanavar, Shiva Dubey, Doreen Edebe,
Kristin Esch, Xuetong Fan, Peyman Fatemi, Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli,
Connie Fisk, Angela Fraser, T.J. Fu, Solomon Gebru, Charles Giambrone,
Brian Goodwyn, Rocelle Grabarek, Halle Greenbaum, Ganyu Gu, Jose
Guerrero, Sanjay Gummalla, Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Jeffrey Hall,
Diana HAO, Lisa Harrison, Heather Hart, Shauna Henley, Montserrat
Hernández Iturriaga, Sunee Himathongkham, Stephen Hughes, Annalisa
Hultberg, Sharon Humphries, Julie Hwang, Indu Aashritha Idumalla, Keith
Ito, Cindy Jiang, Yuqiao Jin, Emily Johnson, Lynette Johnston, Julie A Kase,
Kiran Kastury, Ai Kataoka, Sushant Kaushal, Erin Kealey, Bijay Khajanchi,
David Kingsley, Greg Komar, Rob Kooijmans, Jovana Kovacevic, Eric Krause,
Isabel Laubach, Karen Leacock, Susan Leonard, Teressa Lopez, Humberto
Maldonado, Cynthia Mangione, Roberto Martins Zucchetti, Fabien Matsiko,
Kyle McCaughan, Jennifer McEntire, Miriam Mendez, John Mills, Markanna
Moore, Sudarsan Mukhopadhyay, Jorge Muniz Flores, Claire Murphy, Neda
Nasheri, Angela Nguyen, Roger Noonan, Modesto Olanya, Yeni Olatunji,
Isabella Oliveira Tosta, Alexis Omar, Geun Woo Park, Amy Parks, Anthony
Pavic, Brian Perry, Amanda Philyaw Perez, Arenis Piñón, Gabriella Pinto,
Alda Pires, Jorge Quintanilla Portillo, Kruti Ravaliya, Briseida Rios, Camila
Rodrigues, Ofelia Rodriguez Garcia, Cathy Rubin, Hilal Samut, Valeria
Santillan, Monica Santin-Duran, Vicki-Lynne Scott, Jason Sharrett, Angela
Shaw, Arlette Shazer, Otto Simmons, Amarat (Amy) Simonne, Kaitlin Smith,
Jared Smith, Daniele Sohier, Pauline Spagnoli, Don Stoeckel, Laura Strawn,
Gabriella Strocko, Yuan Su, Sriya Sunil, Trevor Suslow, Iryna Syb, Daniel
Tadesse, Elisa Tobar, Phillip Tocco, Mathilde Trudel-Ferland, Socrates
Trujillo, Grace Tung, Becky Unwer, Wieke van der Vossen, Mariana Villarreal
Silva, Richard Walsh, Rory Wang, Eric Wilhelmsen, Jasmine Williams,
Stephanie Windschitl, Michael Wood, Jacquelina Woods, Jiaying Wu, Zirui
Ray Xiong.
Number of Attendees: 150.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 2:50 p.m. Pacific Time.
Recording Secretary: Enrique Garcia.
Old Business: Minutes from the 2023 meeting were adopted. PDG
members were reminded that IAFP Connect is the primary mechanism
for communication and collaboration. PDG members were encouraged
to contact Kristin and Enrique if they have suggestions for webinars for
2023/2024.There were three webinars hosted by the FVSQ PDG 2023/2024.
The webinar recordings are available on the IAFP website.
New Business: Outgoing Chair, Kristin Esch, thanked the PDG for the
opportunity to serve as Chair and welcomed Enrique Garcia as incoming
Chair and Govindaraj (Govind) Dev Kumar as incoming Vice Chair.
Enrique Garcia provided the IAFP Executive Board Announcements on
behalf of Michelle D. Danyluk. The Executive Board updates included
that for IAFP 2024, more than 3,300 attendees were registered and IAFP
membership is at its highest level ever at 4,577 members. Please visit
the Exhibit floor and talk to the exhibitors. Last year, the acceptance rate
for submitted sessions was less than 50%. As you develop symposia
and roundtable, please prioritize the quality and information rather than
quantity of sessions submitted from your PDG. Please consider a Webinar
as a deliverable for your PDG.
Enrique Garcia orally reviewed with the PDG members the Antitrust
Guidelines ( " What You Cannot Do " ).
Enrique Garcia mentioned that only 13 out of 29 proposals submitted to
the PDG for sponsorship were accepted for the 2024 IAFP Annual Meeting.
The 13 FVSQ-sponsored sessions for the 2024 meeting were shared
in the agenda. A facilitated break-out session was conducted during
the PDG meeting. The topics were based on a poll that was sent out to
members prior to the PDG meeting. The goal was to facilitate discussion
between those with like minded ideas for purposes of identifying similar
and trending areas of interest for symposia, roundtables, and/or webinar
submissions. The PDG Chair and Vice Chair will summarize the information
received and will be sharing it with the PDG members via IAFP Connect
after the Annual Meeting concludes.
Colleagues provided presentations to cover updates on behalf of the
following organizations.
Kruti Ravaliya - Consumer Safety Officer, Division of Produce Safety,
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, FDA. Greg Komar - Technical
Director, California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement.
Reminders were provided about the use of IAFP Connect for PDG
communications and sharing of professional opportunities. Symposia,
roundtables, and workshop proposal are due to the IAFP by October 1,
2024. The PDG members seeking sponsorship by the PDG were encouraged
to submit their proposal to the Chair and Vice Chair prior to the IAFP
deadline for review.
PDG members were advised to send any suggestions for webinars for
2024/2025 to Enrique or Govind.
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