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New Business:
Elections: since it's the second year of Pablo Alvarez
as Chair candidates for Vice Chair were asked. Election
process will be done before the end of the year.
IAFP Connect and your PDG Community platform was
presented and PDG members were encourage to use it as
communication method.
Students in attendance (18) were recognized, and
each one introduced themselves and gave a brief overview
of their research. A list of students and their research interests will be compiled by Soon Kiat Lau and distributed.
Ideas for symposium topics were solicited from the
membership, and 4 broad topic areas were identified for a
parallel ideation session, which consumed the remaining
meeting time. These were:
● EMP - Microbiome (Short symposium).
● Best Practices/Food Safety Plan (Roundtable).
● Validations and target reductions (Full/short symposium).
■ Work with Risk assessment/modeling PDG.
● Sanitation in LWAF environments.
■ Work with Sanitation PDG.

Richard Huang, David Isphording, John Jarosh, Ian
Jenson, Thomas Junillon, Bernice Karlton Senaye,
Suwimon Keeratipibul, Pete Kennedy, Larry Kohl, Mark
Kreul, Craig Ledbetter, Wan Mei Leong, Quanhong Li,
Cari Lingle, John Marcy, Carolina Mariano Ferraz, Bradley
Marks, Barb Masters, Karl Matthews, Kathryn McCullough,
Tammy McFate, Michael Michel, Nathan Miller, Rong
Murphy, Tg Nagaraja, Claudia Narvaez, Shivasharanappa
Nayakvadi, Hung Nguyen-Viet, George-John Nychas,
Kathleen O'Donnell, Adeniyi Odugbemi, Yemi Ogunrinola,
Andy Pointon, Brian Poon, Bill Potter, Jerry Reeves,
Nuno Reis, Michael Roberson, Robert Roe, Edwin Roman
Rivera, Amreeta Sarjit, Deborah Sattely, Jason Scheffler,
Kristin Schill, Melissa Schlabs, John Schmidt, Kristen
Scott, Dennis Seman, Manoj Shah, Subash Shrestha,
Manpreet Singh, Shreya Singh Hamal, Thierry Sofia,
Erika Stapp Kamotani, Tyler Stephens, Christine Stroh,
Meredith Sutzko, Katie Swanson, Christy Swoboda,
Theresa Thompson, Anna Townsend, Brian Umberson,
Constanza Vergara, Roberta Wagner, Morgan Wallace,
Xue (Caroline) Wang, Florence Wu, Shuang Wu, Season
Xie, Crystal Yang, and Yifan Zhang.

Four stations were set up and PDG members were
encouraged to post their ideas at each. After the ideation
session, volunteers presented the ideas from each area to
the group, and groups were formed to further develop the
symposia/roundtables.

Meeting Called to Order: 9:02 a.m., Sunday, July 21,
2019.

Next Meeting Date: August 2, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 4:00 p.m.
Chairperson: Pablo Alvarez.

Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG
Names of Attendees: Wendy White (Chair), Matthew
Taylor (Vice Chair), Melanie Abley, Emelia Adator, Jeremy
Adler, Salman Aldosari, Abdulaziz Alhajeri, Sulaiman
Aljasir, Ahmed Almessabi, Abdullah Almulhim, Abdulaziz
Alzimami, Abdur Amin, Hany Anany, Martin Appelt,
Terrance Arthur, Stan Bailey, Daniel Bair, Mikio Bakke,
S. (Bala) Balamurugan, Kristina Barlow, Wendy Bedale,
Siham Benribague, Angela Bernoski, Mark Berrang, Roy
Biggs, Yige Bima, Preetha Biswas, Betsy Booren, Mick
Bosilevac, Alex Brandt, Meikel Brewster, Shannon Bullard,
Daniela Buosi, Dennis Burson, John Mark Carter, Anindya
Chanda, William Chaney, Peter Cook, Roger Cook,
Sally Crowley, Maeve Cushen, Carl Custer, Thomas
Danisavich, Taylor Davedow, Ken Davenport, Nicola
Dermer, Jim Dickson, Vincent Dinicolas, Martin Duplessis,
Denise Eblen, Alejandro Echeverry, April Englishbey,
Emilio Esteban, Glen Feller, Tracy Fink, Savannah Forgey,
Gregory Fridman, Laura Garner, Mary Garner, Randal
Garrett, Beilei Ge, Kerri Gehring, Ifigenia Geornaras,
Kathleen Glass, Charles Grant, Nancy Gushing, Miguel
Gutierrez, Susan Hammons, Margaret Hardin, Upasana
Hariram, Jim Heemstra, Joe Heinzelmann, Craig Henry,
Deborah Henry, Ian Hildebrandt, Garth Hoffmann,
Clint Holsomback, Joe Holt, Katy Holzer, Stevie Hretz,
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Number of Attendees: 152.

Minutes Recording Secretary: Anna Townsend, Student
Liaison.
Introductions: Betsy Boren, Past Chair, opened the meeting at 9:02 a.m. ET with a welcome. She then asked for a
motion to approve the 2018 Meat & Poultry PDG meeting
minutes; motion was moved by Matt Taylor and seconded
by Ken Davenport; motion passed.
Wendy White, Chair, thanked Betsy for her service
and reviewed the agenda. She then made introductions
for Matt Taylor, incoming Vice Chair, and Anna Townsend,
Student Liaison. Afterwards, the microphone was passed
around the room for the attendees to introduce themselves. Wendy read updates on behalf of the IAFP Executive Board. Notable was the fact that webinars will now be
complementary without need of a sponsor.
Guest Speakers:
Betsy Boren, Past Chair, introduced our speakers,
Denise Eblen and Roberta Wagner for the FSIS Regulatory
Update.
Denise Eblen, Assistant Administrator - Office of
Public Health Sciences.
Two key points/roles:
1. Modernization (focusing on research and new technologies to guide food safety regulation).
2. Sampling and Testing.
FSIS's has finalized their selection for pathogen testing platforms. Final decision: 3M's Molecular Detection
System for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes,
Bio-Rad's iQ Check PCR for E. coli STECs, and
Hygiena BAX for Campylobacter. There have been no
changes to cultural confirmation testing.

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