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8. Melanie Firestone - restaurant inspections/closures -
online vs. posting on site. Roundtable - NRA, Melanie
presents her research, legal perspective, behavioral
side.
9. Kristie - building partnerships to address Listeria
control at retail - move to pathogens in general,
LeeAnn Jaykus, Food Manager?
10. Veronica Bryant - Auditor/Inspector look at third party
audits, inspection forms, retail person - the audits
are all different - how do we standardize. Potential
Roundtable.

List of Recommendations to the Executive Board:
None.
Next Meeting Date: August 2, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:35 p.m.
Chairperson: Tom Ford.

Sanitary Equipment and Facility Design PDG
Attendees: John Merenick (Chair), Rick Stokes (Vice
Chair-Elect), Hamada Aboubakr, Angela Anandappa,
Elizabeth Bach, Daniel Bair, Kristina Barlow, Rick Barney,
Thomas Bell, Greg Bertsch, Steve Blackowiak, David
Blomquist, Richard Brouillette, Marlita Burford, Carmen
Cantú, Erdogan Ceylan, Claudia Coles, Mark Davis,
Elizabeth Demmings, Alejandro Echeverry, Tom England,
Elsa Fakhoury, Peyman Fatemi, Aliyar Fouladkhah, Andy
Freer, Chad Galer, Mike Garrison, Vinayak Ghate, Rolando
Gonzalez, Peggy Good, Sarah Gooding, Nancy Gushing,
Margaret Hardin, Dennis Harp, Edwin Hernandez, John
Holah, Richard Huang, Sanghyup Jeong, Amit Kheradia,
Jeffrey Kornacki, Mark Kreul, Mahipal Kunduru, Alison
Lacombe, Joe Legrand, Joanne Lim, Tony Little, Rachel
McEgan, Ann Marie McNamara, Michael Michel, Rob
Middendorf, Nathan Miller, Pat Millner, Nathan Mirdamadi,
Paul Mitchell, Ana Monge Brenes, Eric Moorman, Gerardo
Morantes, Marcia Murphy, Steve Murphy, Nadia Narine,
Eric Perez, Matt Petrash, Gale Prince, Mingyu Qiao, Jerry
Reeves, Amy Rhodes, Robert Roe, Evan Rosen, Timothy
Rugh, Allen Sayler, Michele Sayles, Arlette Shazer, Anna
Starobin, Steve Stephens, Trevor Suslow, Vince Tallaje,
Theresa Thompson, Daniel Vassar, Dave Wankowski,
Paul Winniczuk, and Kris Young.

Number of Attendees: 81.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:15 p.m., Sunday, July 21, 2019.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Shiyun Yao - Student
Liaison.
Old Business:
* No updates from the communication board. Board
would instead suggest the PDG group start using the
IAFP connect session on IAFP website.
* Minutes from last year meeting:
* Minutes approved from 2018 meeting.
* Speakers at PDG Meeting.
* Dave Cook - President - Commercial Quality and
Food Safety Solutions:

"Observation in sanitary design updates" - quality
food safety, observation on sanitary design.
* Special situation and crisis management.
* Timing - issues to do extra cleaning or
redesign.
* "Non-partisan" - fighting fares/get involved
in design/validation.
* Cost.
* Sanitation validation: run, clean, sample
(6 month after set-up) - "deep dive" will pay off.
Chad Galer - Director of Food Safety at Dairy
Management Group.
* Food safety action platforms.
* Dairy plant food safety workshop brief description.
* Website for more information.
* https://www.usdairy.com/foodsafety.
John Holah - Technical Director - Holchem Laboratories: An update on GFSI Facility & Equipment Hygienic
Design Working Group.
* To develop hygienic design elements to the GFSI
requirement - covering food processing equipment
and food processing/handling facilities from farm
to fork.
* Facility/equipment hygienic cycle:
* Design/risk assessment/assessment criteria.
* Implications.
* Asking food manufacturers to take risk
assessment.
* Expectation within designers to have multidisciplinary team to design/ assess.
* Mitigate any safety risk.
* Hygienic rather than maintenance-based
equipment.
* Defining a common language to come to hygienic
design solutions.
* Five categorizations of zones.
Update on current Vice Chair Dimitrios Tavernarakis:
he has recently changed jobs in the industry and
was unable to attend this years IAFP meeting. John
Merenick did reach out to him to ensure he could take
over as Chairperson at next years meeting. He had
not responded back as of this time. In the event that
Dimitrios could not serve as Chairman, John Merenick
stated he would stay on as Chairman for one more
year to help with the transition of the PDG group.
New Vice Chair election - With the unknown of Dimitrios
status, the PDG group decided to open the floor to
nominations for a new Vice Chairperson. Rick Stokes
volunteered to accept the nomination of Vice Chairperson. A recommendation will be made to the IAFP
Board.
Reminder: Proposals for the IAFP 2020 Annual
Meeting are due October 1, 2019.

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