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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
STANDING COMMITTEES

Food Protection Trends Management Committee
Members Present: Matthew Taylor (Chair), Pardeepinder
Brar, Byron Chaves, Jessica Chen, Cathy Cutter, Gordon
Davidson, Yaohua Feng, Stephen Grove, Joshua Gurtler,
Montserrat Iturriaga, Ian Jenson, Sally Klinect, Bobby
Krishna, Wendy Maduff, Martin Martinez, Salina Parveen,
and William Shaw.
Outgoing Members Present: Faith Critzer, Alejandro
Echeverry, Peyman Fatemi, Amie Minor, and Kelly Stevens.
Board/Staff Present: Tim Jackson, Kali Kniel, Roger Cook,
Donna Bahun, Lisa Hovey, and David Tharp.
Visitors: Sheridan Brewer, Christine Bruhn, Scott Burnett,
Judy Luther, Jennifer Quinlan, Christina Wilson, and
Guodong Zhang.
Number of Attendees: 35.
Meeting Called to Order: 2:05 p.m., Sunday, July 21, 2019.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Faith Critzer.
Introductions and Welcome: Matt Taylor called the
meeting to order, participants introduced themselves. Matt
welcomed the new Committee members and thanked the
Committee members for their service, which were rotating
off.
Old Business:
1. Approval of Minutes from the 2018. Kelly Stevens
motions to approve minutes, 2nd by Guodong Zhang.
Minutes were approved as submitted.
2. Additions to agenda or modifications. No modifications
or meeting agenda items were announced or requested by meeting attendees.
3. Scientific Editor Report - Data generated in editors
report was collected as a snapshot of Jan. 1-June 22,
2019. There was a decline in submissions for the past
year. However, there have been 6 additional submissions since report was generated.
4. FPT award recipients. Most Cited Research.
a. Most Cited Peer-reviewed FPT Publication Award:
Chicken Preparation in the Home: An Observational Study: Christine Bruhn (Published: Sept./Oct.
2014).
b. Most Viewed FPT Publication Award: A Comparison of Urethane and Cellulose Sponges as Cleaning Tools in Household Kitchens: Charles Gerba,
Laura Sifuentes and Akrum Tamini (Published:
May/June 2017).

Most Viewed General Interest FPT Publication
Award: Prevention of Hepatitis A through Food
Handler Immunization: Jill Roberts (May/June
2017).
5. FPT sub-committee to investigate and methods to
improve the visibility of FPT. Committee to establish
visibility of FPT among IAFP membership.
a. Previous ideas have included:
i. Podcasting on high-impact articles has come
to the forefront as one.
ii. Utilize most cited or downloaded.
iii. David Tharp mentioned that estimated 700
- 800 individuals have opted out of receiving
IAFP emails which highlight Food Protection
Trends out of total IAFP membership. It may
also be likely that emails are going to spam
folders (Tim Jackson reported that occurring
in his case).
iv. Matt Taylor discussed open access for
peer-reviewed publications also discussed
to improve access to non-members.
v. Sally Klinect mentioned utilizing social media
ranging from LinkedIn to Facebook to highlight
publications versus other methods, as
a means to engage other possible readers.
vi. Kelly Stevens also recommended utilizing
IAFP connect to highlight publications among
members.
vii. Salena Parveen recommended reaching out
to PDGs to recruit articles for high-level or
conducting special topics. Cathy Cutter has
mentioned that she has focused on having
special issues.
viii. Jennifer Quinlan says that the messaging for
FPT should market itself as a solution for
sharing applied science.
ix. Jessica Chen mentioned relying upon students
to both increase their awareness of the journal
as an option for publishing their work. She
also mentioned reaching to highlight research
to other food-safety minded groups.
x. Cathy Cutter mentioned sharing JFP's booth
on the floor with FPT.
b.

Matt Taylor also discussed increasing international
outreach.
i. Montserrat Iturriaga mentioned a brief video
highlight, which could be shared would help
draw people to FPT.
ii. Roger Cook also mentioned some countries
have a similar publication which are more
focused on their regulations and needs, which
are very country-specific. Some counter-disNovember/December Food Protection Trends

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