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Dairy Quality and Safety PDG
Attendees: Sarah Murphy (Vice Chair), Neil Bogart (Secretary),
Timothy Rugh, John Allan, Dino Demirovic Holmquist, Annie
Piepenhagen, Joyce Wert, Steven Sims, Greg Janzow, Aljosa
Trmcic, Claudia Coronel-Aguilera, Megan Jensen, Danielle
Mayer, Ryan Simmons, Dave Blomquist, Sharon Wilson,
Brian Izdepski, Tim Lott, Daniel Erickson, Amy Rhodes, Don
Pagh, Marcia Murphy, Matthew Hahs, Flor Ortiz Martin, Chloe
McGovern, Daniel Schaffer, Tina Caskey, Liang Bennett, Abigail
Snyder, Arnaud Fourmond, Frederic Martinez, Anne Bigalke,
Barbara Grayes, Luke Qian, Dharamdeo Singh, Pete Kennedy,
Greg DeVivo, John Mills, Shuopeng Yang, Minto Michael, Erin
Headley, Guodong Zhang, Steve Walker, Felix Osafo, Jeffrey
Kornacki, Jaakko McVey, Steve Murphy, Elliot Ryser, Kathy
Knutson, Gurpreet Kaur Chaggar, Emily Forauer, Preetha
Biswas, Dan Belina, Kolawole Banwo, Kathleen Glass, Angelica
Abdallah-Ruiz, Weilin Shelver, Larry Steenson, Alejandro
Mazzotta, Annmarie Blake.
Board Member Present: Mark Carter.
Number of Attendees: 61.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m. Sunday, July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Neil Bogart.
Old Business: Sarah Murphy welcomed members, reviewed
the Antitrust guidelines, the 2021 Minutes were approved (David
Blomquist, Karie Underclose) and finished with the review of
boards response to previous years recommendation.
New Business: Timothy Lott, Student Liaison, opened with
the Student PDG Update. Three 15 minute industry updates
were provided. Tim Rough, Executive Director of 3-A, gave an
overview of what is 3-A and some potential collaboration with
the PDG. Jeff Kornacki and Elliot Ryser gave an update on the
new " Standard Methods for the Evalutaion of Dairy Products "
(SMEDP) 18th Edition. David Blomquist and Neil Bogart
introduced a new UV light technology for the evaluation of clean,
the Bactiscan. Sarah then led the ideation and development of
potential topics for 2023.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Sarah Murphy recognized as the incoming Vice Chair.
Next Meeting Date: July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July 31,
2022.
Chairperson: Sarah Murphy, Vice Chair filled in for Josie GrevePeterson.
Data
Management and Analytics PDG
Attendees: Barbara Kowalcyk (Chair), Sarah Murphy (Vice
Chair), Daniel Weller (Secretary), Laure Pujol, Bradley Marks,
Aftab Siddique, May Yeow, Ganyu Gu, Michala Krakowski, Devin
LaPolt, Janet Buffer, Dimitri Tavernarakis, Sarita Raengpradub,
Brendan Ring, Gregor Matian, Alda Pires, Tim Lott, Sriya Sunil,
Ruixi Chen, Luke Qian, Aljosa Trmcic, Chris Jordan, Dave
Hill, Austin Welch, Michelle Keener, Alex Puerta-Gomez, Ian
Hildebrandt, Hardik Vyas, Devin Daeschel, Yanyan Huang,
Hiroki Abe, Jiyoon Yi, Clare Narrod, Tanesia Cole, Claire Murphy,
Ryan Mills, Nanje Gowda, Kali Siliveru, Thierry Sofia, Claire
Zoellner, Abigail Snyder, Long Chen, Amarat Simonne, Jesse
Miller, James Barkley, Charles Bakin, Ruth Timme, Padmini
Ramachandran, Ariel Garsow, Harmeen Prasher, Hui-Erh Chai,
Akhila Vasan, Madison Goforth.
Board Member Present: Mark Carter.
Number of Attendees: 54.
Meeting Called to Order: 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Sunday,
July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Daniel Weller.
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Old Business: Not applicable as this is the first in-person
meeting of the PDG.
New Business: We started the first annual, in-person PDG
with an introduction of the PDG's mission and history (Barbara
Kowalcyk). We then moved forward with brief introductions. After
introductions, we reviewed the antitrust guidelines before moving
on to IAFP executive board announcements (from Mark Carter).
Key updates centered on the importance of IAFP Connect, and
reminders about 2023 in Toronto (e.g., to check passport and
visa requirements, that COVID19 vaccines are mandated for
entry to Canada). The student liaison then provided updates from
the Student PDG (Claire Murphy); if members are interested in
getting involved with the Student PDG activities (e.g., mentoring
programs contact Claire Murphy at cmarik@vt.edu). We then
reviewed the events at IAFP 2022 that the DMA PDG cosponsored
(there were four total).
Attendees were engaged in a discussion, through breakout
groups, on data management and analytic needs for the
IAFP community. Each break-out group then shared their ideas
with the PDG. Most ideas focused on data integration; working
with and addressing messy and dirty data; data sharing and
ownership; and/or data translation and communication (e.g.,
storytelling). Other common themes included how to generate
practicable outputs (visualizations and models) that can be
used by companies with limited and/or by companies with
ample resources, and how to identify data business needs and
capabilities.
Afterwards we discussed how to best structure the PDG
moving forward to best meet the PDG and wider IAFP needs. We
first discussed how frequently we would like to meet. Suggestions
were made for monthly, bimonthly, and quarterly. We settled on
meeting bimonthly but recognized that this frequency could be
increased or decreased as needed. We then discussed in breakout
groups how and when to organize webinars (e.g., as part
of the bimonthly meetings) and potential webinar ideas; these
ideas were recorded in the Google sheet (https://bit.ly/3zM7OxE).
One point of discussion was if the webinars were to support
analytical skill development of the PDG members, or to support
data management and use within the wider IAFP community. We
determined that the webinars could support both aims.
We then moved forward with idea generation for symposium
and roundtable for IAFP 2023. We started with a Word Cloud
which will be posted in IAFP Connect. Top words included data
standardization, management, and literacy as well as predictive
modelling, spoilage, successes, digital decision management,
data communication and translation. We then split into small
break groups and reported back with these symposium ideas.
We discussed ideas on how to best establish collaborations with
other PDGs or with speakers. Ways discussed to do this included
sharing your ideas in other PDG meetings and reaching out
to the speakers from or leadership of the other PDG in-person
while at the conference. Ideas and submission progress will be
recorded in https://bit.ly/3zM7OxE.
We also discussed recommendations to the IAFP Executive
Board and reminded attendees about symposium proposals
and abstracts. Finally, it was announced that an election will be
held for a new Secretary in spring 2023; at IAFP 2023 Barbara
Kowalcyk will become Chair Emeritus, Sarah Murphy will become
the new Chair and Daniel Weller will become the new Vice Chair.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Would it be possible to ensure that the time for this PDG
meeting does not overlap the time of several related PDGs,
such as the Advanced Molecular Analytics, Food Safety
Assessment and Audit, Microbial Modelling and Risk
Analysis.
2. Would it be possible for PDG Chairs to meet several times
throughout the year (e.g., quarterly)?
Next Meeting Date: July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July 31,
2022.
Chairperson: Barbara Kowalcyk.
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