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quality on milk and dairy products. Pull-Push:
increase consumer demand to reduce burden
of disease - 2 value chains (poultry and
vegetables).
* Issmat Kassem, from the American University
of Beirut provided a talk about Antimicrobial
Resistance (AMR). Resistance is increasing
and there aren't many alternatives in the pipeline. We are using larger quantities of antibiotics in food animal production than for human
medicine. It is a global problem, because
resistance moves with food, water, animals,
and people. Issamat will work to prepare a
session on this topic for next year's IAFP.
* Fabiana Guglielmone, Unilever, Argentina
provided an overview of the 6th Symposium
IAFP Latino 2019, held in Buenos Aires.
Statistics from the Symposium: 8 lectures,
8 roundtables, 26 international speakers,
73 posters, 15 booths, 563 attending from
10 countries. It can be financially challenging
for scientists from Latin America to be able to
come to U.S., so these regional meetings are
essential.
* Marcel Zwietering, mentioned and ICMSF
Youtube Channel that has trainings available -
some with have subtitles in several languages. There are 10 movies, each about 8 mins
time. If you would like uploaded to another
site, or wanted to add subtitles in your
language, let him know.
* Marion Castle from New Zealand Food Safety
Authority provides an update - their Food
safety strategy has been updated, and they
just finished implementation of newest food
act. The new strategy has a focus on key
organisms.
IAFP 2020 Symposia:
* Preparing submissions to the program committee
for IAFP's 2020 Annual meeting in Cleveland,
Ohio (2-5 August, 2020) were discussed after
highlighting what formats (Symposia, Roundtables, Technical Sessions, Workshops) were available. Ideally, proposals were on topics new and
timely for IAFP and supported by multiple PDGs.
Ian and DeAnn to start networking with other
PDGs on Tuesday (breakfast of PDG leads).
IAFP's deadline for full online submissions is
October 1, 2019.
* This year 200 sessions were submitted and
88 accepted - for this PDG, 9 were submitted,
5 were accepted.
* There was discussion of what topics not accepted from last year and suggestions from membership survey could be taken forward as well as
what new ideas were possible.
* Attendees were encouraged to work within the
PDG and across PDG with others to join and
develop the proposal ideas, and to look for topics
that are of international significance and find
international speakers.
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* Proposers were requested to inform Ian and
DeAnn of their proposal ideas (lead contact;
other proposers; title; 2-3 line description;
format; other relevant PDG) by Monday afternoon.
* The following proposals ideas were suggested:
- Locating the root cause of Salmonella, Listeria,
O157 in produce (it was mentioned that there
is a CODEX group working on STEC attribution focused on red meat, dairy, produce -
so there may have more information coming
out of that for a session in 2021).
- GMPs and hygienic zoning (monitoring) -
regulatory codes of practice already out there.
Correlating practices and PPE with zones
vs overall plants.
- Microorganisms - Africa and other countries.
- Roundtable on the complexity of international
foodborne outbreaks.
- Transitions from science to regulatory implementation - how this is approached in other
parts of the globe.
- Model developed from the work in Africa that
could be packaged and transferred to other
parts of the world, like Asia, and Latin America.
Transfer from higher income to lower income,
but the cultural aspects need to be considered
(eating raw beef). Lessons learned might be
an interesting symposium. Approach can be
disseminated but will differ based on social/
cultural aspects.
- Middle East/Mediterranean region: issues and
initiatives.
7.

PDG Activities:
* Ian provided some information on the IAFP Connect website to allow members to communicate
through the year (about 30% of room had used).
* List your suggestions on the IAFP Connect page
to help solicit more input from other members.
* Ian proposed a project: the use of the PDG section of IAFP Connect to collect and share country
profile information on food regulatory systems in
each country. Ian has created a 2-pager of this
for Australia. He encouraged others to put this
together with a few people in your country. Ian
will put up a template for use and provide Australia
as an example for others to follow.

Any Other Business:
* Ian reminded members that they can directly
update their PDG affiliations online. All they need
to do is log onto the IAFP website; click Edit
Profile on the Member Dashboard, then the
Professional Info tab. Select the PDG to join.
* Mentor program - matching students with
industry professionals. If you would like to be a
mentor, let Brittney Magdovitz (Student Liaison)
or the Student PDG know.

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