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June 29th Deb Smith - The Hygienic Design of
Food Industry Cleaning Brushes

PDG Symposia IAFP 2017:
* How Does GFSI Audit Criteria for Sanitation,
Hygiene and Environmental Sampling Compare
to FSMA Requirements?
* Strategies for Effective Hygienic Zoning.
* Empowering Food Laws in Emerging
Economies.
* Development of Microbiological Criteria as
Indicators of Process Control or Insanitary
Conditions: A Summary of the Report Prepared
for the United States Department of Defense by
the NACMCF.
* Novel and Not so Novel Cleaning and Sanitizing
Methods.
* All You Wanted to Know about Viral Hand
Sanitizers and Were Afraid to Ask.

New Business:
Opening remarks and farewell by Yale Larry.
Antitrust Guidelines read by Vanessa Cranford.
A motion made by Vanessa Cranford and seconded by
Dale Grinstead to accept the 2016 minutes was
approved.
* Vanessa thanked outgoing Chair Yale Larry for his
hard work and leadership of the PDG in the last year
for the PDG activities that were accomplished.
Presentations (15 min):
a. Purnendu Vasavada - Sanitation and How It Applies
to Regulation.
* Discussion on FSPCA and training.
b. Evan Rosen - CIP Cleaning.
* Question is there a difference between CIP and
manual cleaning, is one better than the other?
* Suggestion for sanitation and the cleaning practices are they actually working. - Possible topic
for 2018.
Symposia/ Workshop/Ideas 2018:
1.

Chuck Pettigrew: How well do we understand the current
microorganisms in a food plant?

Analysis that can be used to determine if the flora
changes.
* What is considered resident vs. non-resident flora?
* How can you determine when you have a new
organism?
Volunteers for collaboration: Ken Davenport, Dale
Grinstead, Ruth Petran, Jeff Kornacki. Evan Rosen.
David Shelep, Allyn, and Alex Josowitz.
2. Vanessa Cranford: Workshop prior to the IAFP 2018
Annual Meeting and Whitepaper
* In each industry sector there may be pieces of
equipment or tools that best practices through experience have determined for cleaning.
* White paper on best practices of cleaning specific
pieces of equipment.
* Discussion from the group a need exists for writing
an effective SSOP and template outline.
* Discussion from the group for a need for a risk
factor assessment.
* How do we write good procedures?

Vanessa also discussed webinars to be offered
at night that could reach the targeted audience
of those cleaning he plant on fundamental topics
in basic sanitation.
Volunteers for collaboration: Duane Grassmann
and Lisa Lucore.
Nadia Narine: Low Moisture Cleaning and CIP partner
with Low Moisture PDG. Partner with Food Service and
Retail - Symposium and workshop - Brian Nummer at
Utah State University
* Who is the audience for this - QA/Operators, suggestions to reflect various roles in facilities e.g., QA,
operations, engineering.
* For IAFP 2018 on CIP Cleaning - foodservice and
retail.
Volunteers for collaboration: Dave Bloomquist, Duane
Grassmann, Nathan Mirdamdi, and Maria Aba
Lovleace-Johnson.
Yale Larry: Validation of equipment and how to determine when a plant is ready to start up production again.
Potential partnering with the Viral and Parasitic PDG on
this topic content. Symposia and Webinar
* How to determine if a plant is clean and validated for
cleaning?
* What are the steps to consider when a virus in
involved?
* How to prove that cleaning was effective?
* ATP effectiveness on spores or virus.
Allan Sayler: Hygienic Zoning to discuss the principles of
hygienic zoning and also including an international perspective. Symposia development on this topic and then
also to create a white paper on hygienic zoning
* What is the product and people flow required for
hygienic zoning for including microbial and allergen
control.
* Difference in process flows and the impact and varying food categories.
* RTE vs HR, HC, vs, GMP, Enclosed, low risk, etc.
Working on:
Volunteers for collaboration: Kathy Knutson
Jeff Kornacki: Elements of what would be needed to
assist a plant after being shut done by regulatory.
* Collaborating with an FDA rep in the symposia.
* Speaker who has gone through this and how they
dealt with this.
* Could include a consultant.
* Should consider international recalls as well not just
Americas.
* Including financial impact of what costs vs preventative measures costs.
Volunteers for collaboration: Vanessa Cranford and
Michelle Sayles.
Lisa Lucore: Sanitarian tactical aspects of doing sanitation, risks that these individuals face. A certification process for sanitation cleaning.
* It was discussed among the PDG this is a great idea
but difficult to accomplish through the PDG as it
would require a detailed process and management
approach for sanitation certification.
* The group will have the ability to perform webinar
training.
* Lisa will provide details of this information of works
previously performed for the PDG to determine what
options are possible for consideration.
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