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4. JFP Recommended Articles to FPT.
a. Cathy Cutter mentioned that while authors are
redirected from JFP to submit articles which are
not going to be published there in FPT, however
this has not really matured into a viable conduit for
receiving publications. Roger Cook mentioned that
authors may then search out other journals.
5. Enhancing the visibility of FPT.
a. Brainstorming ideas have been generated as
recorded above. Any additional ideas should be
shared with Matt Taylor. The sub-committee will
continue to work on this important task.
b. Dennis D'Amico asked if articles could be accessed
for free once they are past a certain age they
could be accessed for free. Cathy Cutter mentioned that they are currently open access after
5 years. There was a discussion if this time line
should be eliminated entirely - all articles are
open-access upon acceptance. Betty Feng asked
what the time line between acceptance and
publication is. Cathy Cutter said 3-4 months.
Numbered List of Recommendations to the Executive
Board:
1. Appointment of Byron Chaves as Vice Chair for Food
Protection Trends.
2. Reappointment of Cathy Cutter to another 5-year term
as Scientific Editor of Food Protection Trends.
3. Articles published in FPT will become open access
immediately upon publication.
4. Editing FPT Instructions for Authors to include a paragraph in the instructions for authors to remove bibliographic field codes to alleviate issues in editing.
5. Food Protection Trends should share a booth on expo
floor alongside Journal of Food Protection to promote
journal to membership at 2020 IAFP Annual Meeting
in Cleveland, OH.
Next Meeting Date: August 2, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:59 p.m.
Chairperson: T. Matthew Taylor.

JFP Management Committee
Members Present: Sean Leighton (Chair), Fred Breidt
(Vice Chair), Joshua Gurtler, Lauren Jackson, Elliot Ryser,
Panos Skandamis, Peter Ben Embarek, John Donaghy,
Narjol Gonzalez Escalona, Sanjay Gummalla,
Chengan Hwang, Barbara Ingham, Steve Kenney,
Balasubrahmanyam (Bala) Kottapalli, Deon Mahoney,
Matthew Moore, Pat Rule, Joyjit Saha, Angela Shaw,
and Hyun-Gyun Yuk.
Outgoing Members Present: Peyman Fatemi, Abani
Pradhan, and Manan Sharma.
Board/Staff Present: Timothy Jackson, Kali Kniel, Mickey
Parish, Michelle Danyluk, Didi Loynachan, Lisa Hovey,
and David Tharp.

Visitors Present: Neil Bogart, Cathy Cutter, Yaohua Feng,
Linda Harris, Pushpinder Litt, Judy Luther, Kelly Stevens,
and Yifan Zhang.
Number of Attendees: 37.
Recording Secretary of Minutes: Stephen Kenney.
Meeting Called to Order: 10:01 a.m., Sunday, July 21,
2019.
Change to Agenda: Add an agenda item to discuss time
from submission to publication. Motion was approved to
add item to agenda.
Old Business: Committee reviewed minutes from 2018
JFP Management Committee meeting. A motion was
approved to accept the 2017, as written. No edits were
needed.
New Business:
Scientific Co-Editors Report: Panos Skandamis provided
the journal's Scientific Editor's Report. Highlights include
that Vol. 81 (2018) included 2,092 pages and 10 fewer
papers when compared to Vol. 80 (2017). There has been
an increase submission of mini-reviews, but there has
been a reduction of research papers and notes. The increase in mini-reviews may be due to reduction in amount
of time from submission to publication. 99.6% of manuscripts accepted for publication were published within
12 months of submission.
Thirty-nine countries were represented by corresponding authors with China (32), Korea (16), and Japan
(11) being the top 3 countries being represented. Articles
authored by researchers in the United States were 40% of
the total articles submitted to the Journal.
The editorial board ended 2018 with 161 members.
Fifty-two international countries were represented on the
editorial board.
The number of pages per article have increased when
compared to previous years.
The John Sofos Most Cited Publication Award and the
Most Downloaded Publication Award will be announced at
the Editorial Reception.
There was a question to see how to promote the publication of articles in the Journal to authors in international
countries. Dr. Skandamis stated that he believed there has
been a reduction on submissions from Europe due to the
lower impact factor of the Journal.
Table 3 of the editor's report may contain an error in
the 2018 numbers for accepted and published rows. The
numbers for 2018 accepted should state 257 and published 226 as of July 1st.
Fred Breidt suggested a rating system for reviewers.
The editors stated that there is an informal process and
that there is a 3-year term for the editorial board members.
It has happened in the past that an editorial board member
has been removed prior the end of their 3-year term.
Dr. Jackson asked if there was a way to determine
how many food toxicology papers were submitted and
how many are being accepted/rejected. Didi will need to
research to see if there is a way to get this type of break-

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