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RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD WITH BOARD
RESPONSES FROM BOARD MEETING HELD JULY 25, 2019
None.

Affiliate Council
STANDING COMMITTEES

Food Protection Trends Management Committee
1. Appointment of Byron Chaves as Vice Chair for
Food Protection Trends.
Board Response: Agree.
2. Reappointment of Cathy Cutter to another 5-year
term as Scientific Editor of Food Protection
Trends.
Board Response: Agree. Reappointment will
be for a 4-year term, as per the IAFP Bylaws.
3. Articles published in FPT will become open access
immediately upon publication.
Board Response: The Board will review Membership benefits and overall offering to Members in
considering this recommendation.
4. Editing FPT Instructions for Authors to include
a paragraph in the instructions for authors to
remove bibliographic field codes to alleviate
issues in editing.
Board Response: Agree. FPT Management
Committee leaders and FPT Scientific Editor
to make author instruction revisions.
5. Food Protection Trends should share a booth on
expo floor alongside Journal of Food Protection
to promote journal to membership at 2020 IAFP
Annual Meeting in Cleveland, OH.
Board Response: Agree.

Journal of Food Protection Management
Committee
1. The Committee recommends that a comprehensive review be conducted on the overall quality
of the experience our JFP authors are receiving
through their engagement with the Journal. This
includes how long it takes to go from approval to
publication, the quality and calibration of reviewers
comments and should also include comparison to
other journals published by similar organizations.
Board Response: Agree. JFP is undergoing a
review of all systems and working to tighten all
time frames.
2. The Committee recommends a new process be
initiated to invite targeted authors to write reviews
for JFP on specific, high impact/highly relevant
and timely topics.
Board Response: Agree. JFP Editors have
already been inviting review papers for publication.
Please provide an outline for the suggested,
"new process" for Board consideration.

None.

Program Committee

SPECIAL COMMITTEES
3-A Committee on Sanitary Procedures
None.

Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness
1. Manuals. Recommend the Board provide the
following information to the Committee on the
Procedures for Investigation on Foodborne Illness
manual and Procedures for Investigation on
Waterborne Illness manual:
a. How much income have the manuals generated
for IAFP over the past 5 years?
b. How many hard copy manuals vs. online
manuals have been sold?
c. Do we have details on who the buyers are?
Local, state, federal, industry, international
partners?
d. Were promotion activities at international
events completed as requested in the
2018 recommendations?
e. Does the Board support potential IT improvements to online available resources (apps,
fillable forms, etc.)?
f. Is there a pathway to offering manuals for
free?
g. Once feedback from the Board is received
specific to the Procedures for Investigation
on Foodborne Illness manual, CCFI will create
a subcommittee to begin researching and
addressing necessary updates to the current
manual.
Board Response: IAFP Staff will provide
answers to the above questions.
2. Recommend the following changes to the
Committee Bylaws:
a. Addition of a mission statement to promote
professional development in foodborne illness
outbreak detection, response, and prevention.
b. Propose the establishment of the role of a
Secretary with a 2-year term to support both
the Chair and the Vice Chair; an incumbent
does not necessarily progress to the role of
Vice Chair.

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