Food Protection Trends - November 2008 - (Page 772)

The Welcome Reception on Saturday evening was a relaxed venue for early arrivals to reconnect with colleagues, and where new Members and first-time attendees could meet and mingle with the Executive Board and active Members of the Association. New attendees and students especially appreciated this opportunity to connect faces to names before exploring Sunday’s abundance of meetings for committee and professional development group (PDG) members. We encourage you to review the minutes from all of these meetings (page 836), and to call the IAFP office for assistance as you seek involvement in the groups that best fit your interests and goals. At Opening Session on Sunday evening, IAFP President Gary Acuff was joined by Gloria SwickBrown, the Local Arrangements Committee Chair, in welcoming IAFP 2008 attendees to Columbus. Ms. Swick-Brown, sporting buckeye earrings in honor of her home state, extended greetings on behalf of the Ohio Association of Food and Environmental Sanitarians (OAFES) and her entire team of volunteers. Year after year, the Association owes a round of applause to the numerous individuals who dedicate their time and talents behind the scenes long before and throughout Annual Meeting, providing indispensible planning and administrative support to the IAFP staff—and fun Welcome Bags for all attendees! Dr. Acuff was pleased to announce that three IAFP Affiliates had been established since the last meeting: the Turkish Food Safety Association (TFSA), Spain Association for Food Protection (SAFP), and the United Arab Emirates Association for Food Protection (UAEAFP). After charters were presented to officers in attendance from these Affiliates, Dr. Acuff introduced IAFP Foundation Chair Gale Prince, who refreshed the audience on the purpose and goals of the Foundation before enthusiastically announcing that he would, again this year, personally match the first $5,000 in pledged donations. In response, inspired givers pledged a total of $12,070 to support Foundation programs, which includes funding of the Student Travel Scholarship Award. Together with Dr. Acuff, Mr. Prince then introduced the six 2008 scholarship recipients to receive their plaques: Ji-Yeon Hyeon of Konkuk University, South Korea; Hudaa Neetoo of the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; Rolf Erik Nilsson of the University of Tasmania, Australia; Christopher Nnadozie Njoku of Linkoping University, Sweden; M. Elizabeth Palmer of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and Akafete Teklu Fite of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. For their contributions to IAFP and its Affiliates with distinction over a period of time, three individuals were inducted as Fellows of the Association by Dr. Acuff and Past President Frank Yiannas: Warren S. Clark of Bloomingdale, Illinois; P. Michael Davidson of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Gloria I. Swick-Brown of Somerset, Ohio. We invite you to read the accomplishments of these IAFP Fellows on page 777. The program continued with David Golden of the University of Tennessee taking the stage to announce that a new award, the Larry Beuchat Young Researcher Award, had been established to recognize an active IAFP Member each year who has shown outstanding ability and professional promise as a researcher in food microbiology/food safety. Dr. Golden then welcomed 772 FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS | NOVEMBER 2008

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Food Protection Trends - November 2008 Contents Sustaining Members Perspectives from Your President Commentary from the Executive Director Biofilm Formation of Listeria monocytogenes on Various Conveyor Belt Surfaces Third-Party Certification of Agro-Products in China:�A Study of Agro-Product Producers in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Qingdao IAFP 2008 in Review Award Winners 3M Microbiology - Black Pearl Award Winner Ivan Parkin Lecture - Russell S. Flowers John H. Silliker Lecture - Michael P. Doyle Student Travel Scholarships Session Summaries Highlights of the Executive Board Meeting Minutes of the 95th Annual Business Meeting Committee Minutes Executive Board Response to Committee Recommendations Exhibitors of IAFP 2008 Special Contributors and Sponsors Call for Awards - IAFP 2009 New Members What's Happening in Food Safety Industry Products Coming Events Advertising Index Journal of Food Protection Table of Contents Audiovisual Library Order Form Booklet Order Form Membership Application

Food Protection Trends - November 2008

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