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HACCP Utilization and Food Safety Systems PDG
Attendees: Deann Akins-Lewenthal (Chair), Fatemeh Ataei (Vice Chair),
Abigail Villalba, Allen Sayler, Amanda Rials, Bala Kottapalli, Brad Taylor,
Brenda Perez-Lopez, Brian Himelbloom, Elizabeth Williams, Emefa
Monu, Eric Moore, Erin Wade, Fred Cook, Hannah Bolinger, Jason
Scheffler, Jean Anderson, Jenny Scott, Joseph Meyer, Kara Baldus,
Lance Schultz, Les Bourquin, Loralyn Ledenbach, Neil Bogart, Nicola
Sharman, Oscar Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Pamela Wilger, Phyllis Posy,
Rachel Lang, Robert Buchanan, Rocelle Clavero, Sally Crowley, Stephen
Grove, Vikas Gill, and Zeb Blanton.
Staff Present: Didi Loynachan, Dina Siedenburg, and David Tharp.
Number of Attendees: 38.
Meeting Called to Order: 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, September
24, 2020.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Fatemeh Ataei.
Old Business: The meeting minutes from last year were approved.
Reviewed and shared this year's sessions that were approved by PDG.
Thirteen proposals were submitted, and 4 were approved and are on the
schedule for the October meeting (two roundtables and two symposia).
New Business: The meeting started with reviewing last year's meeting
minutes and approved by PDG members. Dr. Bala Kottapalli was invited
as guest speaker and talked about the HACCP utilization using mathematical modeling for risk assessment. The PDG members decided to
propose the following topics for next year's Annual Meeting: We have
until November 10 to submit topics for next year's IAFP Meeting.
Bob Buchanan: Dealing with residual risks: Modeling PDG will
be sponsor as well. What do you with residual risk and verification
approach? How do you manage, measure, and prevent it? Reach to
Modeling PDG and ask if they are interested.
Webinar topic: Pandemic and dealing with the new norm, and how to
manage HACCP / FSP re-assessment and audits (virtual, online)? How
to manage it? How people have dealt with this situation to manage audits
and visits safely - Loralyn - work with audit PDG and best practices -
Bring Neil Bogart, and use FDA guidance; Remote facility walkthrough
and audit - Nicola Sharman, Oscar Rodriguez.
2021 is 10th anniversary of FSMA: Jenny Scott: Food Law PDG will
sponsor and HACCP PDG will co-sponsor - Jenny would keep us posted.
Topics that the PDG would like to use and discuss via webinars
throughout the 2020-2021 year include " Remote facility walkthrough
and audit " : Neil Bogart from Ecolab.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 18-21, 2021, Phoenix, Arizona.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Deann Akins-Lewenthal.

International Foods Protection Issues PDG
Attendees: Ian Jenson (Chair), DeAnn Benesh (Vice Chair), Amarat
(Amy) Simonne, Andrea Etter, Anne-Marie Perchec, Ashley Peterson,
Bob Brackett, Brad Taylor, Caroline Smith DeWaal, Don Schaffner,
Elisabetta Lambertini, Elizabeth Williams, Ewen Todd, James Cook, Jeff
Farber, Jiin Jung, Jong Kim, Kevin Edwards, Les Bourquin, Lisa Benjamin,
Lisa Weddig, Mariza Landgraf, Mary Anne Amalaradjou, Muhammad
Shahbaz, Peter K. Ben Embarek, Raj Rajagopal, Robert Buchanan,
Rosetta Newsome, Samuel Godefroy, and Sarah Cahill.
Board/Staff Present: Emilio Esteban, Didi Loynachan, Dina Siedenburg,
and David Tharp.
Number of Attendees: 34.
Meeting Called to Order: 3:04 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, September
1, 2020.
Minutes Recording Secretary: DeAnn Benesh, Vice Chairperson.
Ian opened the meeting, welcoming PDG members and guests and
made general introductions of himself and the Vice Chair, DeAnn Benesh.
Ian reminded the participants of the purpose of the meeting and reviewed
the anti-trust guidelines and the proposed agenda. Old Business: 2019
PDG Meeting Minutes. The minutes of the 2019 PDG meeting were
accepted as printed in FPT and posted on IAFP Connect July 2019.
(Motion to accept Ewen Todd, seconded by Jeff Farber.) Accepted.

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New Business:
Update from the IAFP Board: David Tharp welcomed everyone to
the virtual meeting, saying he hopes these virtual meetings will benefit the
group. The Board looks forward to the Annual Meeting and hopes to " see "
everyone there. The Program is now available on the Annual Meeting
page. All sessions will be recorded and posted on the IAFP website for 6
months for viewing.
Review of Symposia / Roundtables submitted for the 2020 Annual
Meeting by the PDG. Twelve proposals were submitted with the IFPI PDG
as the primary sponsor for 6 of these. Nine submissions were accepted:
2 full symposia, 6 short symposia and 1 roundtable. The 1 roundtable has
since been cancelled (decision of speakers) and will be resubmitted for
next year's meeting.
Activities between meetings:
IAFP Connect - All members are encouraged to get themselves
set up to use this communication platform. Ian mentioned that he has
received more response when he uses the site to send information via direct email vs listing directly on the IFPI PDG Connect page. He suggested setting your " Preferences " to receive emails, so you don't have to go
to the IAFP Connect page to check for communications. It will be critical
to use IAFP Connect this year so we can work at development of ideas
for roundtable/symposium submissions for the 2021 program. Using this
format to allows for response and discussion among members.
Food Safety Systems - high-level 2-page summary by country: Ian
reiterated what he had suggested on this topic at last year's meeting,
and asked for a response from the PDG to complete and collect 2-page
high-level overviews of the structure of the government agency system(s)
and key laws for food safety in your country. The objective would be to
create a small library of these and house them on the IFPI PDG IAFP
Connect site. Ian had posted one such summary last year that he had
created in collaboration with a few other Australians; and in addition,
someone in the PDG had posted a link on IAFP Connect to FAO and
food laws within countries (which was a bit more detailed than preferred).
Sarah Cahill said this FAO version is FAOLEX, go to http://fao.org/faolex.
en/. She also provided a link in the chat for CODEX, suggesting to check
under each member country to get a regulatory overviews/per country, go
to http:// www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/about-codex/members/en/.
Ian asked if there were members of the PDG who would be willing to
take this project on for their countries.
Muhammad Shahbaz from Pakistan, currently working in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia said he would like to participate to represent Pakistan and/
or Saudi Arabia. Jeff Farber thought this was a good idea for the PDG
to take on to get to know each other and work with each other, and he
would be willing to take this on for Canada. Amarat (Amy) Simonne said
she would be willing to help to create one for Thailand and some selected
Asian countries. Bob Buchanan suggested we work with the Food Law
PDG on this project and said International Product Liability Laws - Jones
Day provide a really good website. Caroline Smith DeWaal suggested
this might also be a good thing to turn into a series of articles for Food
Protection Trends, such as was done by the Food Law PDG a few years
ago with the introduction of the FSMA Rules. Ian suggested this might
also be an idea for creation of future symposia.
Ian will update and re-post the 2-pager he created for Australia so
members can use as an example to get started.
Proposal suggestions for 2021:
Ian reminded everyone that proposals can originate either in our
PDG or we can support those originating from other PDGs. He again
encouraged members to use IAFP Connect to work to work together to
develop submissions. The deadline for submission is 10 November 2020
- just a couple of weeks post completion of the 2020 Annual Meeting.
Ian received email from several members on topics under development: Marcel Zwietering and Arie Havelaar (also members of the
Microbial Modeling and Risk Assessment PDG) sent in their suggestion
for a symposium and an associated roundtable on quantitative microbial risk assessment in low- and middle-income countries; and Kevin
Edwards and other members of the Seafoods PDG will be developing a
symposium with an international view and will likely come to the PDG for
support.
During the meeting, Ewen Todd suggested that since a survey is being published on the change of Knowledge Attitudes and Practices (KAP)
in food purchases and food preparation for Middle Eastern North Africa
(MENA) countries, a symposium or round table could be created to share
this information and include other countries or regions. Don Schaffner

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