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Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 8, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:15 p.m.
Chairperson: Brita Ball.

Fruit and Vegetable Safety and Quality PDG
Attendees: Achyut Adhikari, Adebayo Afuape, Sarah Allard,
Maria Almeria, Theresa Almonte, Brienna Anderson, Maren
Anderson, Bassam Annous, Samir Assar, Justine Beaulieu,
Sylvia Bergman, Bruna Bertoldi, Larry Beuchat, Sohini Bhatia,
Elizabeth Bihn, Gleyn Bledsoe, Samantha Bolten, Betsy
Booren, Richard Brouillette, Robert Buchanan, Annemarie
Buchholz, Marisa Bunning, Laurel Burall, Kellie Burris, Loan
Cao, Catharine Carlin, Alejandro Castillo, Ann Lawrence
Charles Vegdahl, Huihui Chen, Yi Chen, Shani Craighead,
Vanessa Cranford, Alvin Crosby, Cecilia Crowley, Yue Dai,
Michelle Danyluk, Gloria De La Garza, Tenille De Souza,
Pascal Delaquis, Kaiping Deng, Govindaraj Dev Kumar,
Yiran Ding, Diane Ducharme, Jill Dunlop, Laurel Dunn, Sarah
Durham, Vikrant Dutta, Kim Eads, Blanca Escudero-Abarca,
Jeremy Faircloth, Erick Falcao de Oliveira, Xuetong Fan, Jeff
Farber, Khashayar Farrokhzad, Peyman Fatemi, Christina
Ferreira, Jorge Adrian Flores, Elise Forward, Tong-Jen Fu,
Brady Fuchs, Jingwen Gao, Mirijam Garske, Samantha
Gartley, April Garza, Tiah Ghostlaw, Charles Giambrone,
Jonathan Glynn, Yaisy Gonzalez, Gustavo González, Jim
Gorny, Sheri Governo, Bob Gravani, Leena Griffith, Diane
Gubernot, Sanjay Gummalla, Eduardo Gutierrez-Rodriguez,
Jack Guzewich, Rasas Haji, Brenda Halbrook, Alexis
Hamilton, Emma Hanson, Diana Hao, Margaret Hardin,
Fawzy Hashem, Arie Havelaar, Yingshu He, Craig Henry,
Sarah Hertrich, Sunee Himathongkham, Stefan Horn, Alison
Hurysz, Cheng-An Hwang, Oluwatosin Ijabadeniyi, Sanja
Ilic, Kari Irvin, Keith Ito, Tim Jackson, Hyein Jang, Wojciech
Janisiewicz, Karen Jarvis, Tony Jin, Amy Jones, Françoise
Julien-Javaux, Jiin Jung, Soontag Jung, Hillary Kelbick, Jang
Ho Kim, David Kingsley, Kalmia Kniel, Larry Kohl, Shigenobu
Koseki, Mark Kreul, Ploy Kurdmongkoltham, Marcus
Langen, Sharan Lanini, Dan Lasic, Shrish Latch, Marla Leal
Cervantes, Eduardo Lecea, Susan Leonard, Melanie Lewis
Ivey, Quanhong Li, Zhe Li, Marie Limoges, Pushpinder Litt,
Qin Liu, Arosha Loku Umagiliyage, Stephen Lowe, Dumitru
Macarisin, Nicole Maks, Humberto Maldonado, Claire Marik,
Jennifer McEntire, Sherri McGarry, Sheila Merriweather,
Shirley Micallef, Yvonne Middleton, Marianne MiliotisSolomotis, Pat Millner, Billy Mitchell, Peter Muriana, Rianna
Murray, Nadia Narine, Claudia Narvaez, Jeff Nauseda,
Scott Nguyen, Kaylee Norris, Xiangwu Nou, Kathleen
O'Donnell, Modesto Olanya, James O'Neal, Ynes Ortega,
Andrea Ottesen, Jacques Overdiep, Holly Paden, Indira
Padmalayam, Donna Pahl, Laura Patterson, Anne-Marie
Perchec - Merien, Evelyn Pereira, Fernando Perez Rodriguez,
Bridget Perry, Vera Peterson, Suresh Pillai, Alda Pires, Juan
Ponce de Leon, Malynn Porayanee, Prasant Prusty, Zhang
Qi, Mark Queenan, Barbara Rasco, Cari Rasmussen, John
Raulerson, Dave Read, Jordan Recker, Elizabeth Reed,
Robbie Roberts, Christopher Rupert, Robert Sakata, Miguel
Santos, Brooke Schwartz, Tarcio Sebastiany, Jue Shah, Elisa
Shannon, Manan Sharma, Angela Shaw, Shima Shayanfar,
Arlette Shazer, Adrienne Shearer, Hansaem Shin, Greg
Siragusa, Dara Smith, Michelle Smith, Aswathi Soni, Don

Stoeckel, Jennifer Stokes, Stacy Stoltenberg, Laura Strawn,
Trevor Suslow, Kristina Sweet, Gloria Swick-Brown, Aparna
Tatavarthy, Siddhartha Thakur, Laura Tobilla, Phillip Tocco,
Mary Torrence, Jean-Philippe Tourniaire, Socrates Trujillo,
Angela Valadez, Adam Vanore, Cynthia Villacorta, Mike
Villaneva, Morgan Wallace, Isabel Walls, Christina Wilson,
Dorothy Wrigley, Aixia Xu, Wenqing Xu, Mu Ye, Christine Yu,
Hyun-Gyun Yuk, Alex Zeman, Guodong Zhang, Xuan Zhang,
and Zijin Zhou. Number of Attendees: 225.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Humberto Maldonado.
Old Business: Minutes from 2016 meeting were adopted
without changes.
New Business: Chairperson Sherri McGarry thanked the
PDG for their participation on the two brainstorm sessions
that took place during the week previous to the IAFP meeting
and introduced Humberto Maldonado as Vice Chair. No additional issues were added to the agenda.
Sherri McGarry shared some statistics with the PDG
and congratulated them for the high level of acceptance on
symposia and roundtable submission.
Historically, the FVSQ PDG provides a series of updates
to the members, which are outlined below.
1.

Regulatory Update: The regulatory update was provided
by Samir Assar (FDA CFSAN). Produce continues as
a top priority for FDA. FDA has a new Commissioner
who is interested in what has been done until now and
supportive of efforts moving forward. Compliance dates
for Produce Rule are coming. Actually, first compliance
date for sprouts was on January 2017, and for produce in
general will be in January 2018. The Agency is continuing to look for opportunities foster compliance with the
produce rule through education, training and other activities. The Sprout Safety Draft Guidance was issued on
January 2017 and the FDA is still looking for comments.
The Produce (in general) Draft Guidance is intended to
be published before January 2018. NASDA, ASTHO, and
AFDO are involved in this Draft Guidance. Agricultural
water will likely not be covered in the guidance in detail
because Compliance dates on Agricultural Water will be
extended. A notification from the FDA will come shortly
about this extension. USDA and FDA have partnered to
coordinate education/training cooperative Agreements
through the FSMA training collaborative training forum.
FDA has granted $21.8 million to 42 different states
(https://www.fda.gov/ForFederalStateandLocalOfficials/
FundingOpportunities/GrantsCoopAgrmts/ucm517991.
htm) to conduct inspectional and/or educational activities.

2.

Diane Ducharme, FDA, presented the Produce Safety
Network (https://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/
fsma/ucm510261.htm), a new network that is currently
staffed by seven produce safety experts and one team
leader from FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN), and 11 investigators and two branch
chiefs from the FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA),
that will work closely with key produce stakeholders, such
as state produce safety programs, to provide regulatory
support and technical assistance. They are open to collaboration opportunities.

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