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PDG HIGHLIGHT

Food Hygiene and Sanitation PDG
The Food Hygiene and Sanitation PDG's mission is
to provide information on the development in hygiene and
sanitation in the food industry. This is achieved through our
active PDG throughout the year. We aim to have monthly
calls where PDG members can engage in conversations about
current topics. We promote having webinars offered through
the PDG in order to continually educate the industry.
The PDG has grown over the years since my initial joining.
We currently have 301 members through IAFP Connect
from across the globe representing academia, industry and
government. We also meet annually during the IAFP Annual
Meeting where we recap the year, and discuss symposia topics
for the next Annual Meeting. We have also collaborated with
other PDGs to ensure topics are appropriately supported. We
have a wide variety of topic types which include: workshops,
symposia and roundtable discussions. For the year 2020, we
had over 20 submissions where half are sponsored by our PDG
and the remaining by secondary sponsors.
Some examples include:
Advanced Sanitation and Hygienic Design Workshop.
Sanitation practices are essential to provide safe foods
to consumers. A 2-day workshop is designed to deepen
knowledge of the equipment design and sanitation process
by looking at activities taking place at each stage, including
reading Computer-Aid Design (CAD); factory acceptance

tests; latest development in equipment design; and the
options between modifying the design of the equipment or
managing it from a sanitation perspective.
Validation of Cleaning and Sanitization Full Symposium.
Preventive Controls for Human Foods includes four preventive
controls, namely; Sanitation, Allergen, Supplier and Process
Preventive Controls. However, Process Preventive Controls
are required to be validated. Thus, validation of Sanitation
Preventive Controls is not required.
Integrating Industry Best Practices to Comply with GFSI
and FSMA Requirements Regarding Sanitation, Hygiene
and Environmental Monitoring Short Symposia. The latest
revisions of BRC, SQF, and FSSC 22000 are among those
popular standards that have been benchmarked to the
GFSI requirements, within a set scope and according to the
Guidance v.7.2, published in May 2018. The certification
program owners (CPO) have also developed a gap
assessment report to evaluate their programs' alignment
with the U.S. FSMA Final Rule on Preventive Controls for
Human Food (PCHF).
We invite you to join our PDG by joining on IAFP Connect. If you
have any questions about the PDG, feel free to contac the current
Chair for the Food Hygiene and Sanitation PDG .
- Nadia Narine at nadia.narine@lumarfoodsafetyservices.com.
Nadia Narine, Chairperson

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