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* Webinar - perhaps a small group could sit together and work on webinar development for the
PDG. Leon volunteered to lead this... additional
ideas can be communicated via IAFP Connect to
bring them to encourage others to participate and
support.
* Translation - consideration for future IAFP meetings?
Many presentations are recorded and there is
software now for translation. Would need to ID
Power Points that would be of largest interest. How
to make our material more international. Many
posters that are brought from other countries are
created in their own language and then translated when they bring them - so they may already
be available in other languages.
* Recruit more students from international to
become members how to do? Create mentorship
for those students who cannot afford to attend? -
student awards for travel. IAFP foundation -
increasing number of students that are sponsored,
and anyone can apply.
* African affiliate meeting next week: Roger will
take back to the Board. Start raising the issue
of leftover copies of Journal of Food Protection
to Africa. Start putting forward ideas on IAFP
Connect.
* U.S. regulatory update on Monday - other suggestions/thoughts about how there updates that
include other country updates platform - put on
IAFP Connect your ideas of what you think would
be the way to do this?
Recommendations to Executive Board:
1. That DeAnn Benesh be approved as Vice Chair
of the PDG beginning at IAFP 2019.
Next Meeting Date: August 1, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Ian Jenson.

Low Water Activity Foods
Attendees: Pablo Alvarez (Chair), Larry Steenson (Vice
Chair), Gary Acuff, Jennifer Acuff, Seun Agbaje, Nurul
Ahmad, Keith Amoroso, Nate Anderson, Renee Anderson,
Saif Arabi, Bennett Armstrong, Shaheen Banabeela, PierreOlivier Beal, Avery Becker, Thomas Bell, Larry Beuchat,
Richelle Beverly, Yige Bima, Elise Binder, Tom Black,
Nancy Bontempo, Luc Bourbonniere, Marlita Burford,
Daniel Burnett, Scott Burnett, Zachary Cartwright, Caio
Carvalho, Margolite Cesar, Erdogan Ceylan, Anindya
Chanda, Hongda Chen, Long Chen, Larry Cohen,
Frederick Cook, Sally Crowley, Ellison Cunningham,
Nathan Decker, Jérôme Defillon, Martin Duplessis, Lise
Duran, Teri Ehlinger, Elsa Fakhoury, Peyman Fatemi,
Yaohua Feng, Elise Forward, Zhujun Gao, Francisco
Garces Vega, Heather Garcia, Kerri Gehring, Muchigi
Githii, Rachel Goeriz, Carly Gomez, Sarah Gooding,
Mikayla Goodman, Vybhav Vipul Sudhir Gopisetty,
Elizabeth Grasso-Kelley, Trey Harness, Linda Harris,

Gayan Hettiarachchi, Ian Hildebrandt, Ken Hill, John Holah,
Dwayne Irvin, Rhoma Johnson, Alexander Josowitz, Kent
Juliot, Jiin Jung, Susanne Keller, Amit Kheradia, KarimFranck Khinouche, Donghyun Kim, Jeffrey Kornacki, Shira
Kramer, Sakshi Lamba, John Larkin, Joe Legrand, Girvin
Liggans, Joanne Lim, Siman Liu, Xiyang Liu, Zhuosheng
Liu, Lisa Lucore, Maria Ma, Anna Mackay, Bradley Marks,
Karina Martino, Taylor Mason, Yvonne Masters, Christine
Mcintosh, Molly Mills, Nathan Mirdamadi, Paul Mitchell,
Gerardo Morantes, Carine Nkemngong, Jinhwa Park,
Richard Park, Anita Peterson, Ruth Petran, Obie Pigeon,
Richard Podolak, Mira Rakic Martinez, Bhargavi Rane,
Aishwarya Rao, Cari Rasmussen, David Rasmussen,
Sadhana Ravishankar, Frank Ridgley, Juliany Rivera
Calo, Jena Roberts, Evan Rosen, John Russell, Sarah
Sanderson, Sofia Santillana-Farakos, Aurora Saulo,
Michele Sayles, Dan Schaffer, Manoj Shah, Arlette Shazer,
Ryan Simmons, Guy Skinner, Naveen Kumar Srinivasa
Murthy, Charles Staff, Philip Steinbrunner, Steve
Stephens, Rachel Streufert, Quincy Suehr, Rico Suhalim,
Greg Sutherland, Juming Tang, Aparna Tatavarthy,
Abdullatif Tay, Brad Taylor, Arleen Tibayan, Heidi Tremblay,
Aaron Uesugi, Vijay Vankar, Akhila Vasan, Tushar Verma,
Xinyao Wei, Chris Wells, Pamela Wilger, Edith Wilkin,
Anett Winkler, Niradha Withana Gamage, Dory Worcman
Barninka, Shuang Wu, Jia Yan, Ren Yang, Kris Young,
Mohamed Youssef, Cheng Zhang, Guodong Zhang, and
Chee Zheng.
Number of Attendees: 153.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Soon Kiat Lau.
The agenda was presented and accepted.
Board Update:
Board update was previously sent by mail to the Chair
and Vice Chair:
1. The IAFP Executive Board welcomes you to Louisville
and IAFP 2019. We hope you enjoy the conference. Let
us know if you need assistance or you can stop at the
IAFP registration desk.
2. Webinars no longer need sponsorship due to the IAFP
Foundation supporting the expense. We encourage
PDGs to make use of webinars for symposia that were
not able to be on the Annual Meeting program. Membership is required to view the recorded webinars.
3. Please make use of IAFP Connect for your PDG or
Committee communications. You may also pose questions for colleagues to answer, post documents to share
and discuss submissions for next year's Annual Meeting.
4. Use your Committee or PDG Liaison to assist you with
questions for the Board or items for the staff.
Old Business:
2018 minutes were presented and accepted.
Reviewed PDG submissions for the 2018 program and the
ones that were accepted for this annual meeting.
Reviewed Webinar organized by PDG LWAF members in
2018/19 - Dr. Bradley Marks' webinar had 600 registrants!
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