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Approve Megan Kenjora (Guilford) as Chair.
Approve Lone Jespersen as Vice Chair.
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.

Next Meeting Date: July 9, 2018, Salt Lake City, UT.

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Meeting Adjourned: 2:47 p.m.
Chairperson: Megan Kenjora.

Food Safety Education PDG
Attendees: Susan Algeo, Elizabeth Andress, Ashley Arnold,
Danielle Balay, Brita Ball, Kenneth Boyer, Renee Boyer,
Julia Bradsher, Frances Buck, Martin Bucknavage, Janet
Buffer, Marisa Bunning, James Byam, Benjamin Chapman,
Stoyka Chipchakova, Andrew Clarke, Courtney Crist, Patricia
Curtis, Kaiping Deng, Candice Deschaine, Kenneth Diplock,
Diane Ducharme, Minh Duong, Sarah Durham, Leanne Ellis,
Bertrand Emond, Ellen Evans, Savana Everhart, Shelley
Feist, Faye Feldstein, Yaohua Feng, Francoise Fontannaz,
Alonzo Gabriel, Monica Galleguillos, Francisco GarcesVega, Margaret Good, Leon Gorris, Robert Gravani, Megan
Guilford, Brenda Halbrook, Emma Hanson, Fawzy Hashem,
Jason Horn, Kirsten Howe, Sanja Ilic, Ravi Jadeja, Lucia
James-Davis, Lone Jespersen, Cindy Jiang, Hillary Kelbick,
Amit Kheradia, Jang Ho Kim, Amanda Kinchla, Kalmia Kniel,
Kathy Knutson, Larry Kohl, Giannis Koukkidis, Richard
Kralj, William Lachowsky, Alvin Lee, Panos Lekkas, Katrina
Levine, Melanie Lewis Ivey, Xinhui Li, Richard Likin, James
Lucas, Stephanie Maggio, Joyce McGarry, Sherri McGarry,
Lynn McIntyre, Lynn McMullen, Eric Moore, Tetsuya Mori,
Rianna Murray, Laura Nelson, Katia Noll, Obianuju Nsofor,
Rose Omari, Jacques Overdiep, Nina Parkinson, Ruth
Petran, Raquel Pinto, Alda Pires, Kinsey Porter, Samantha
Raccanello, Beth Riffe, Todd Rossow, Donna Schaffner,
Jason Scheffler, Lester Schonberger, Adrienne Shearer, Tori
Stivers, Jennifer Stokes, Debbie Stroud, Katherine Swanson,
Yoko Takahashi, Thomas Taylor, Ellen Thomas, Phillip Tocco,
Tomohiko Tsurumaru, Akhila Vasan, Purnendu Vasavada,
Christine Venema, Abigail Villalba, Carol Wallace, Isabel
Walls, Jean Weese, Han Wen, Frances Widjaja, Wenqing Xu,
Lily Yang, Ian Young, Giddy Zipori, and Marcel Zwietering.
Number of Attendees: 114.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:15 p.m., Sunday, July 9, 2017.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Frances Buck.
Old Business:
1. The IAFP Program Committee accepted eight proposals
that were sponsored, co-sponsored or supported by the
Food Safety Education PDG.
a. Developing Evidence-based Recommendations to
Improve Consumer Safe Food Handling: International
Approach.
b. Teaching for Tomorrow - Impact of School and
College Food Safety Curricula on Better Informed
Consumers, Career Opportunities and the Industry
Workforce of the Future.
c. International Strategies to Deliver Food Safety
Education Via the 'Trusted Source' - Health
Professionals.
d. Establishing Effective Metrics to Advance Your Food
Safety Training and Education Programs.
e. Advancing Food Safety Internationally Through the
Use of Innovative Technologies: Food Irradiation.

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Food Protection Trends November/December

Can Industry and Government Take Safe Food
Handling and Preparation Risks out of the Hands of
the Consumer?
Tools to Improve Interactive Food Safety Training for
Small Food Facilities.
Empowering Food Laws in Emerging Economies.

Responses to PDG Recommendations to the Executive
Board:
a. Agree that the Board approve Francie Buck as Vice
Chair to begin serving at the IAFP 2017 PDG meeting.
b. Referred PDG to Program Committee for information
about success/failure of symposia and round table
proposals. This year: IAFP did send the list of successful symposia and round tables to the PDG this
year.
c. Indicated that it may be possible to send to the
PDG chair before the PDG meeting key points to be
presented by IAFP representative. This year: IAFP
streamlined the process so the information was presented at a plenary session.
d. Agreed that drinking water should be available at the
back of session rooms during the conference.

New Business:
1.

Volunteers for IAFP Board request to PDG: Review and
update two IAFP publications for consumers to make
sure they are accurate and contain the most up-to-date
information.
a.

Before Disaster Strikes... A Guide to Food Safety in
the Home (written 1997, revised 2002): Wenqing Xu,
Bill Lachowsky and Sherri McGarry.
b. Food Safety at Temporary Events (written 1998,
revised 2003): Martin Bucknavage, Rick Kralj, and
Shelly Feist.
Review PDG purpose and name to ensure they adequately reflect PDG focus. Suggestions for revised purpose were discussed in 2013 but did not get further. A
PDG committee will review the information and propose
recommended purpose and name for review by all PDG
members later this year. A recommendation to the IAFP
Board will be made at the 2018 PDG meeting.
a. Volunteers to follow up: Ellen Evans, Betty Feng
and Julia Bradsher.

Guest Speakers:
* Julia Bradsher, International Food Protection
Training Institute - Developing a single training
quality standard for the industry.
* Shelley Feist, Partnership for Food Safety
Education - Update on consumer behavior conference and consumer food safety initiatives.
* Ian Young, Ryerson University - Evaluating
results for effective decision making.
Idea Generation:
* Divided into three groups to brainstorm ideas for
symposia and roundtables for IAFP 2018 using
the Lotus Blossom method.
* Discussed ideas and identified coordinators for
topics to develop further for submissions.
* Webinar idea: Basics of designing, developing and delivering effective food safety training. Volunteers to take this forward: Monica
Galleguillos, Laura Nelson and Bill Lachowsky.

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