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New Business:
Representatives from the Seafood PDG gave a brief
informational presentation about careers in their industry
and shared advice regarding choosing a career or "Does a
career choose you?" PDG discussed how it plans to utilize
IAFP connect in parallel with emails. A survey about how
the PDG will use the platform will be sent to members
following the meeting. Students were encouraged to visit
the newly redesigned student booth in the exhibit hall
(Thank you, Tamara and the IAFP Board!) to purchase
T-shirts and stickers, sign up for a mentor and talk with
PDG officers. The meeting concluded with a review of
roundtable and symposia guidelines and an ideation
session for potential topics for symposia or roundtables.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
We thank the Board for their responsiveness to our
requests and their continued support of the Student PDG.
1. Recommend Minh Duong for Student Professional
Development Group Vice Chair.
2. Recommend continuing a 2-hour PDG meeting length
for next year's meeting.
3. Because of a successful presale we recommend to
the Board that we order a larger quantity of T-shirts
and continue to work closely with staff on distribution
at the Annual Meeting.
4. We recommend an additional student board member
position to the Student PDG officer board that would
represent international students.
Next Meeting Date: August 2, 2020, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 12:00 p.m., Sunday July 21, 2019.
Chairperson: Margaret Kirchner.

Viral and Parasitic Foodborne Disease PDG
Names of Attendees: Alexandre Da Silva (Chair),
Julie Jean (Vice Chair), Hamada Aboubakr, Alberto
Aguayo-Acosta, Brienna Anderson Coughlin, James
Arbogast, William Burkhardt, Kellie Burris, Franck
Chatigny, Shani Craighead, Michelle Danyluk, Kaiping Deng,
Lise Duran, Mauricio Durigan, Abdul Azeez Ebrahim,
Blanca Escudero, Laura Ewing, Xuetong Fan, Amanda
Flathers, Bob Forner, Eduardo Franco Frias, Ted Gatesy,
Rebecca Goulter, Sagar Goyal, Stephen Grove, Jim
Heemstra, Sunee Himathongkham, Kirsten Hirneisen,
Jessica Hofstetter, Brynn Husk, Timothy Jackson, Laurent
Jain, David Kingsley, Alison Lacombe, Pongpan
Laksanalamai, Pushpinder Litt, Chip Manuel, Jose Merino
Mascorro, Naim Montazeri, Neda Nasheri, Angela Nguyen,
Joseph Nicholl, Ikechukwu Oguadinma, Isha Patel, Ankit
Patras, Emma Patregnani, Audrey Patterson, Anne-Marie
Perchec - Merien, Claudette Quevedo, Beatriz Quiñones,
Sarita Raengpradub Wheeler, Rachel Rodriguez, Adrienne
Shearer, Marianne Solomotis, Brad Taylor, Gretchen Wall,
and Jacquelina Woods.
Number of Attendees: 57.
Meeting Called to Order: 9:00 a.m., Sunday, July 21,
2019
Minutes Recording Secretary: Julie Jean.
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The meeting was called to order by Alex da Silva
(Chair). Alex introduced himself and announced Julie Jean
as the newly elected PDG Vice Chair who introduced
herself. All attendees were invited to introduce themselves
and after that Alex gave an overview of the agenda.
Old Business:
* Minutes from IAFP 2018 were approved with no
modifications.
* Alex reviewed the 3 accepted sponsored or co-sponsored proposals (RT4: Cyclospora: It's not just imports'
issue; S48: Determining preventive controls for viruses
and parasites; S54: Agricultural water and emerging
pathogens in the age of FSMA: do we need to worry?)
and overall presentations/posters related to virus/
parasites from this year's program.
New Business:
Two (2) presentations are at the agenda:
1. According to the recent advances and media attention,
Alex da Silva presented an overview entitled: The
update on Cyclospora cayetanensis and cyclosporiasis:
science and public health.
2. Ikechukwu Oguadinma, IAFP Student liaison presented the mentorship program and its importance
for student career and IAFP recruitment of students.
Everyone is invited to the Student Mixer on
Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. for better interaction
between professional and students. Several PDG
roundtables and symposia are sponsored or cosponsored and our PDG were invited to consider this
opportunity. Student mentorship program facilitate
communication between student and professional.
In preparation for IAFP 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio,
August 2-5, 2020, roundtable and symposia topics were
suggested and discussed:
- Frozen berries: David Kingsley mentioned the
latest recalls of berries. Neda Nasheri mentioned
the frozen state of the berries on recall. Discussions were also on the origin of the berries subjected to those recall. Students from Kali Kniels'
lab have mentioned studies that are conducted
in their lab about persistence of viruses in frozen
berries. On farm control has already been covered
by past symposium. However, importance of water
in the transmission was mentioned.
- Exotic parasites or viruses: Angiostrongylus cases
from Hawaii (Alex da Silva) and vegetable viruses
as indicators (David Kingsley) were discussed as
a possible symposium proposal combining viruses
and parasites. Neda Nasheri mentioned the lack of
information on the prevalence of hepatitis E virus.
- Control methods: According to the control methods
symposia that are presented this year. (Jessica
Hofstetter) expressed the value of that kind of
information for food industry to assure choice of
safe ingredients. However, major gaps in those
mitigation methods are discussed toward virus
and parasites. Validations of post-harvest methods

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