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There is attention for understanding the incentives of vendors and
of consumers, but also includes modelling strategies, to predict impact of
control options and risk-based regulation and policy. An Africa food safety
index has been created, which consists of a Food Safety Systems Index,
a Food Safety Health Index and a Food Safety Trade Index.
Furthermore, lab infrastructure, education, and actionable knowledge
are pertinent. Future, developments are foreseen for: data and
surveillance, metrics, diagnostics and surveillance, surveillance platforms,
metagenomics and NGS. Bioinformatic networks, hazard monitoring in
a risk-based framework: low cost point of use diagnostics, data transparency
and open data are additional aspects. Metagenomics is a great
technique but also has challenges: especially relating to sensitivity.
Detection is great, but without being risk-based, it can also be dangerous.
The can equally be said for open data-great from one side but has its
dangers too.
Policy and governance inter-ministerial and sectoral alignment,
informal domestic markers, codex and private standards, regional trades,
climate and food safety are important issues. Also relevant for future are
climate and changes to child malnutrition: volatility in production and prices,
perishable food and spread of pathogens and diseases. Food safety
clearly needs to tie into the agenda. Relevant consideration are also the
perception of safety and trust, consumer knowledge and understanding,
market actor incentives to implement knowledge and training. And this,
while actual food safety data are quite limited. Kristen's overview was well
received and PDG members mentioned that many experts from
IAFP could be helpful in this domain.
New Business: Proposal suggestions for 2022: Ian Jenson: Food
systems; Allergen assessment (Kang); Covid and the food supply; Jeff
Farber: neglected and emerging zoonoses: Brucella, Parasites, Lessons
learned from COVID, Harmonised definition of RTE foods: (e.g., in frozen
food), Mycotoxins; Webinars or RT on RTE (difference in definition of
CODEX FSMA) could be taken up by Pamela and Alvin. The subject
seems to be maybe best for a RT due to the lively discussions on this
subject; Pam Wilger: Natural disasters and how to impact food safety,
for example mycotoxin (but also seafood toxins); Caroline Smith de
DeWaal: Community sourcing surveillance systems (PODD in Thailand
and Ayradata in Tanzania); A compilation of all suggestions will be sent
out via IAFP Connect to gather input, people support and additional ideas
to drive development of sessions for submission. Deadline for proposals:
5 October 2021.
Food Regulatory System Summaries: country pages. Ian explained
his original idea. Results of the polls taken on this topic by IAFP PDG
and Food Law PDG members to gauge interest were presented. There is
sound interest to begin the project, and additional people are needed to
help get the project started.
Jeff Farber, Alvin Lee, Caroline Smith DeWaal and Elizabeth Demmings
offered their support to the project. A note will be sent out via IAFP
Connect to gather additional support and input.
Activities between meetings: IAFP Connect-exchange on ideas for
proposals and other information can be exchanged by IAFP Connect:
Webinars-please consider ideas for organising webinars. One suggestion
was to edit the recording of today's 3 speakers and issue as a webinar
for the larger IAFP membership; Articles for FPT (or JFP)-also consider
ideas for articles. The Regulatory System Summaries could perhaps be
submitted as educational pieces for FPT; Mentor program-consider signing
up to be a mentor (or mentee). Information is on the IAFP website.
Pam Wilger spoke about her positive experience being a mentor the last
several years.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend approval of Marcel Zwietering as Vice Chair of the
International Food Protection Issues PDG.
2. Keep the hybrid option open for future conferences (including the
regional conferences such as the EU symposium).
Next Meeting Date: July 31-August 3, 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:02 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: DeAnn Benesh.
Low Water Activity Foods PDG
Attendees: Larry Steenson (Chair), Bradley Marks (Vice Chair), Aaron
Uesugi, Abdullatif Tay, Antonio Lourenco, April Bishop, Asia Xu, Betty
Feng, Brad Taylor, Brady Carter, Carl Custer, Claudia Coronel, David
Legan, David Rasmussen, Elizabeth Grasso-Kelley, Erdogan Ceylan,
Francisco Garces-Vega, Frederick Cook, Gale Prince, Gerardo Morantes,
Ian Hildebrandt, Isabel Walls, Jared Rivera, Jena Roberts, Jenny Scott,
Joe LeGrand, Joseph Meyer, Juliany Rivera Calo, Juming Tang, Larry
Beuchat, Leslie Thompson-Strehlow, Linda J. Harris, Manoj Pulivarthi,
Pamela Wilger, Phil Steinbrunner, Quincy Suehr, Rachel Streufert, Rick
Falkenberg, Rico Suhalim, Scott Burnett, Shivaprasad Doddabematti
Prakash, Tom Black, and Xiyang Liu.
Board/ Staff Present: Michelle Danyluk and Dina Siedenburg.
Number of Attendees: 46.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, June 29,
2021.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Bradley Marks.
Old Business: Minutes of Sept 22, 2020 meeting were approved by
unanimous consent.
New Business: The new Student Liaison, Andrew Kearney, was introduced.
A brief update was provided by Michelle Danyluk from the IAFP
Executive Board. Nominations for the next PDG vice chair have been
solicited via email to the membership. An informal meeting place will be
provided for the LWAF PDG at the IAFP Annual Meeting venue in Phoenix
(Sunday, 2-4 p.m., rm. 221BC).
Presentation by student member Jared Rivera (Kansas State
University) - Quantitative Transfer of E. coli (non-pathogenic) from
Wheat into Milling Fractions and Equipment During Lab Scale Milling.
Presentation by Yaohua (Betty) Feng (Purdue University)-Consumer Risk
Perception and Handling Practices of Low-Moisture Foods: Wheat Flour
and Dried Apple.
Symposia/Roundtable/Workshop ideas were discussed in the whole
group meeting, based on input that was collected in advance of the meeting
via an online survey (7 initial ideas). The ideas were distilled down
into 5 topics for further work at the end of this meeting, which occurred in
topic-specific breakout Zoom meetings. Details of the ideas refined during
those small-group discussions were collected real-time via a shared
Google Sheet for collective coordination across the PDG, in advance
of submission to the IAFP system. Broad topics included fundamentals
of pathogen control in LWAF, standardization of validations protocols,
hygienic design/sanitation, and food safety training for low-moisture food
systems.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None
Next Meeting Date: July 31-August 3, 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Larry Steenson.
Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG
Attendees: Matt Taylor (Chair), Melvin Carter (Vice Chair), Ana Lucia Lemos,
Andrea Etter, Andy Hwang, Barbara Masters, Byron Chaves, Cindy
Austin, Dianna Bourassa, Gina Geornaras, Isabel Walls, James Dickson,
Jeremy Adler, John Jarosh, John Marcy, Jonathan Basha, Jordan Nehls,
Kara Baldus, Kathleen O'Donnell, Kathy Glass, Kesha Booth, Kis Hale,
Kristin Schill, Lei Zhang, Lynn McMullen, Mandy Carr, Mark Muldoon,
Mary Anne Amalaradjou, Mindy Brashears, Morgan Wallace, Pamela
Wilger, Robert Roe, Rachel Edelstein, Renata Bromberg, Subash Shrestha,
Sam Annor, Stefan Wright, Stevie Hretz, Wendy Bedale, Wendy White,
and Yuhuan Chen.
Board/Staff Present: Emilio Esteban, David Tharp, and Dina
Siedenburg.
Number of Attendees: 44.
Meeting Called to Order: 11:05 a.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, June 8,
2021.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Wendy White.
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