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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10:15 a.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Tamara Walsky.
Old Business: Meeting notes have been adopted, 1st and 2nd motions.
Reviewed old recommendations to IAFP Board.
New Business: Updates from IAFP Board: use the meeting app (keep track,
meet new ppl), Student PDG update. 50% proposal acceptance rate of
Water PDG proposal: better than average!
Review of the sessions the Water PDG submitted-38% overall acceptance
rate.
Focus on smaller # of symposia and proposal-what do outreach efforts
look like? Goals: ID 2 proposals you want to see-2 webinars, FPT articles
for info that isn't suitable for a webinar, frequency of meetings: quarterly, 2
PDG and 2 webinar, other food safety meetings around the world.
FDA water rule update: Kruti Ravaliya-Produce Safety Rule.
Breakout groups: list of topics and facilitators on slide. International:
chem risk assessment in water reuse, cross border/refugee/ VIBRIO/AMR,
hydroponics-internal/ city farming/ reuse
Outreach: Real-time free webinars to open up to growers (grower focused
walkthrough for ag water assessment, case study), existing research on
crop characteristics, success stories (internet), behavior change, global
implications of fit for use, integrated water resource management (climate
change reduction in groundwater), cross-communication to other waterfocused
groups, engage informal sector, CEA topics,
EPI: work backwards from extreme health and environmental impacts
of climate change/ extreme weather (link EPI and climate change),
crosscutting challenges of impaired water in commodities-free webinar to
world food safety day, archive is free for the month of June. Post-Harvest:
How to make decisions about postharvest processing water (plus Climate
change reduces water availability).Pre-Harvest: lessons learned from
past outbreak/how could an ag water assessment solve this problem,
consolidate available information for folks who all draw water from same
source/ risk assessment, use AI to do all this, how much info is enough for
growers to defend their choice/ inspector and grower speak same language,
FAO: PowerPoint will be sent to the group.
Recommendations to Executive Board:
1. Please consider cost of attending Annual Meetings in selecting cities,
e.g., hotel, food, transportation. This may especially impact attendees
coming from Africa or the Middle East (cost of flight), but many U.S.
employers also cap hotel cost/night.
2. Could you clarify what the IAFP global vision for how different
meetings fit together and/or fill specific niches? e.g., regional
discussions, different audiences, all the same?
3. Proposed to have webinars free to all (members and not) to
watch for 48-72 hrs. after the event (in addition to in real time) to
accommodate different time zones and busy schedules.
4. Considering " task force focus groups " of specific duration e.g., 3-4
years to scout out or develop a topic in a planned intentional manner.
We may not need new PDGs all the time or not immediately; this
approach would give proper recognition and attention to a topic
without the added logistics of a permanent PDG.
Next Meeting: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: Sunday, July 14, 2024; 11:50 a.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson: Dan Weller
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