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New Business:
Symposia ideas for 2020 Annual Meeting:
1. Legacy of equipment - Discussion by Charles
Giambrone, Steven Sims, Evan Rosen, David
Blomquist, Duanne Grassmann, John Holah,
Jeff Kornacki, and Paul Mitchell.
* How to resolve the food budget and expense?
How to justify money to replace equipment?
Different people to look at from purchases and
other perspectives.
* Get OEM involved to deal with legacy of equipment; case studies; what to do with the old equipment that is functional.
* FSMA with legacy of equipment: time, cost and
extra management; more than the risk; compliancy
in the law; food manufacturer to put time and cost
and continue to put money to keep it running.
* Show equipment that get paid back within 2-3
years and show that to the investors.
* Teach people how to communicate cost to replace
equipment.
* How to convert the numerical numbers to a one-,
two-year plan and how to solve the dilemma.
* KPI and ROI: qualitative standard of risk that
associated to the plants.
* Food spoilage issues: equipment design and
maintenance (budget).
* Legacy of equipment: what is the age of the equipment? More of maintenance of the equipment
not just the years of use; what are the sanitation
design force instead of engineering design we are
willing to put and invest?
* "What is not done in the program" is more of
problem. The argument to be made: we can
calculate performance and correlate to microbial risk (more money in or save money).
* Who would like to develop the ideas into
symposium?
2. Hygienic zoning (a suggested webinar): Duanne
Grassmann offered slides from previous presentation
for webinar.
3. Safety - Guarding and employee safety - Discussion
to help Food Hygiene and Sanitation on this idea.
4. Cleaning chemicals compatibility with equipment
finishes. Newer chemicals with newer finishes.
Webinar idea - Duanne Grassmann and David
Blomquist to submit webinar.
5. GFSI and Sanitary Design - Webinar idea - Amit
Kheradia to help lead project.
Recommendation to the IAFP Executive Board:
1. The Sanitary Equipment and Facility Design PDG
recommends the Executive Board recognize the
election of Rick Stokes as Vice Chair starting at IAFP
2019.
2. The PDG recommends the Executive Board extend
John Merenick as Chairperson until just prior to IAFP
2021.

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Review scheduling of PDG meetings for 2020 Annual
Meeting. Many conflicts in 1:00 p.m. and 3:15 p.m.
time slots if members want to attend similar PDG
meetings.

Next Meeting Date: August 2, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: July 21, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
Chairperson: John D. Merenick.

Seafood Safety & Quality PDG
Attendees: Forest Reichel (Chair), Kevin Edwards (Vice
Chair), Jessica Jones (Vice Chair-Elect), Hiroki Abe, John
Allan, Keith Amoroso, Angela Anandappa, Kenneth Boyer,
Kristin Butler, David Calvin, Franck Chatigny, Neil Checketts,
Andy Depaola, Blanca Escudero, Tracy Fink, Oscar
Galagarza Angulo, Jim Heemstra, Sunee Himathongkham,
Richard Huang, Kali Kniel, Johnathan Likens, Siman Liu,
Keri Lydon, Shannara Lynn, Sabrina Mace, Anna Mackay,
Doug Marshall, Christine McIntosh, Mark Moorman,
Adewale Obadina, Katheryn Parraga-Estrada, Renee
Perry, Lori Pivarnik, Gale Prince, Rachel Rodriguez,
Melissa Schlabs, Maria Scott, Subash Shrestha, Marianne
Solomotis, Tori Stivers, Nicholas Tan, Abigail Villalba,
Qiaochu Wang, Jacquelina Woods, and Luyao Zhao.
Number of Attendees: 45.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m. Sunday, July 21,
2019.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Kevin Edwards.
Introduction and Mission Statement of Seafood PDG.
Reading of the Rules of Order & Anti-trust Guidelines by
Student Liaison Katheryn Parraga
Introduction of attendees.
Old Business:
Tori Stivers motioned to approve the 2018 Meeting
minutes. Jessica Jones seconded the motion.
New Business:
Announcement that the transition of previously elected, new Chair Foivos Genigiorgis was cancelled due to an
academic opportunity. This required Foivos to step away
from the Chair position.
The PDG membership in attendance encouraged us
to accept nominations at the PDG meeting versus the
alternate method of using Survey Monkey. From the floor,
Tori Stivers nominated Jessica Jones, FDA. She accepted
the nomination. The PDG unanimously approved her
candidacy.
Guest Speaker: Lisa Wedding, National Fisheries
Institute provided an abbreviated summary of "Aquaculture Training" by the Seafood HACCP Alliance and AFDO.
Highlights covered the Seafood HACCP regulation, and
its connection to on-farm activities, the Fish & Fishery
Seafood Hazards Guide, and the need to improve control
strategies at the point of receiving. This requires an
approach for the primary processor to have knowledge
of [good] farming activities including fish health, control
strategies, and the danger of using un-approved veterinary

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