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Food Hygiene and Sanitation PDG
1.

Making symposia searchable on the app by PDG
for 2018.
Board Response: Agree, staff will look into
making the necessary changes.

Post the agenda for each PDG meeting on the
app so that participants can plan their attendance
agenda.
Board Response: Agree, this was done in
2017 for PDGs who provided their agenda to
staff for posting.

Approve permanent formation of Food Safety
Culture PDG.
Board Response: Agree.

Approve Megan Kenjora (Guilford) as Chair.
Board Response: Agree.

Approve Lone Jespersen as Vice Chair.
Board Response: Agree.

Approve the following Mission Statement: The
mission of the Food Safety Culture PDG is to provide an international forum to advance food safety
culture science and best practices.
Board Response: Agree.

Recommendation to Board to switch roles of
Nadia Narine (Secretary) to replace Ken Davenport
as Vice Chair (Ken has a conflict as Chair of the
Packaging PDG).
Board Response: Agree.

Food Law PDG
1.

Food Safety Culture PDG

Recommend approval of Rosetta Newsome as
Vice Chair of the Food Law PDG beginning at the
IAFP 2017 Annual Meeting.
Board Response: Agree.

Food Safety Education
None.

Fruit and Vegetable Safety and Quality
None.

HACCP Utilization and Food Safety Systems
1.

Recommend that Deann Akins-Lewenthal be
approved as Vice Chair of the PDG.
Board Response: Agree.

Request that the Board determine how many hits
have been made in the last 2 years on the IAFP
HACCP Guidance document and inform the PDG
Chair of the results.
Board Response: IAFP does not currently
have a HACCP Guidance document.

Food Packaging PDG
1.

The Food Packaging PDG recommends that the
IAFP invest in updating the IAFP App to make
symposia searchable by the sponsoring PDG to
better enable members to quickly filter the symposia for content. Furthermore, update the hard copy
books so that the sponsoring PDG(s) are listed
along with the organizer/convenor/etc.
Board Response: Agree, staff will look into
making the necessary changes.

Food Safety Assessment, Audit
and Inspection PDG
1.

Recommend the Board approve the formation of
this new PDG.
Board Response: Agree.

Recommend approval of the following Mission
Statement: To provide an International forum for
the open exchange of information among peers
on the unique scientific and technical challenges
associated with food safety assessments, audits
and inspections, and encourage development of
best practices and educational opportunities that
improve the acquisition and application of the
knowledge, skills and abilities relevant to assessing, auditing and inspecting food safety.
Board Response: Agree.

Recommend approval of Patricia Wester as Chair.

Board Response: Agree.

International Food Protection Issues PDG
1.

To approve the election of Ian Jenson to Vice
Chair of the PDG.
Board Response: Agree.

To provide written summaries of IAFP international
meetings to be printed in Food Protection Trends.
Board Response: Agree, currently, IAFP
international meetings are reviewed in Food
Protection Trends.

Low Water Activity Foods PDG
None.

Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG
1.

Recommend that Wendy White, Golden State
Foods, be recognized as Vice Chair.
Board Response: Agree.

Recommend that the PDG Chair be notified, in
addition to the organizer, for education programs
not accepted by the Program Committee. This will
ensure that topics of interest could be developed
for future webinar educational programming.
Board Response: Chairs and Vice Chairs are
encouraged to follow up with the submitters of
session proposals to determine whether the
submission was accepted or not.

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