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Neal Fredrickson reviewed the minutes from the 2021 Food
Defense PDG meeting, and the minutes were approved by voice
vote.
New Business: Neal Fredrickson and Kristin Schill were officially
recommended and approved as Chair and Vice Chair. Gale
Prince approved the motion and Mark Kazmierczak seconded the
motion.
Next, Colin Barthel, FDA, provided an update of the status
of implementation of the Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule. In
summary, the rule requires a food defense plan, and this plan
follows a similar construct as a HACCP plan (analysis of risks,
protection of the process, and managing those protections
through a pre-planned strategy). This plan requires a vulnerability
assessment, and training is required to be qualified to complete
verification of this process. FSPCA training and awareness
courses are free to access. Colin Barthel then introduced
the Food Defense Plan Quick Checks that are currently
being conducted (since August 2020) during scheduled food
safety inspections for facilities that are subject to the IA rule,
domestically and internationally. Visual inspection of facility's
food defense plan for being complete, accurate, the presence
of the vulnerability assessment, and a verification procedure
will be conducted. Records will not be collected outside of the
facility. Over 300 quick checks have taken place thus far. In the
coming years, Food Defense Facility Assessments will take place
at prioritized facilities by specially trained investigation staff.
Training for the investigation staff is in development. Exemption
from these rules will be conducted by state partners upon
inspections of firms. In conclusion, findings from quick checks
have determined that most firms recognize coverage status and
have developed their food defense plans. Colin Barthel then
asked the audience about their experience with Quick Checks
and feedback was provided verbally.
Neal Fredrickson next led discussion of PDG communications,
processes and resources. Neal Fredrickson shared
IAFP Connect resources and tutorials for joining PDGs on IAFP
Connect. Student Liaison Christina Wormald discussed student
PDG opportunities for collaborations with Student PDG efforts.
Kristin Schill then discussed last year's proposals and this
year's sessions. There are two symposia being held in 2022.
The first symposium is entitled Food Defense: Approaches to
Risk Mitigation on Monday August 1st
at 3:45 p.m. in room 405,
This symposium includes The National Security Memorandum -
Strengthening the Security and Resilience of United States Food
and Agriculture across State, Local Tribal and Territorial and
Private Sector Partners, Protecting U.S. Agricultures at Border
Crossings, and Food Supply Chains - how would Food Defense
be Affected by African Swine Fever. The second symposium
is entitled Cyber Attacks on the Food Industry: Virtual Threats
with Real Consequences at 1:30 p.m. in room 317-318. This
symposium includes The Cyber Risks to Food Manufacturing and
Public Health, FBI Support to the Food and Agriculture Sector
on Cyber Threats, and How the Food and Agriculture Industry is
Collaborating on Cybersecurity .
The group then discussed potential session topics for
IAFP 2023 in Toronto. Together, the PDG came up with the
following topics during the discussion: 1) Temporary Hires and
Food Defense Implications, 2) The HR Implications of Food
Defense, 3) The Foreign Implications of IA: How to make training
opportunities and regulation information available around the
world 4) Food Defense for All: Curriculum discussion surrounding
implementing IA into PC or other FDA mandated curriculum
Proposals are due October 4, 2022.
Kristin Schill suggested conducting more frequent meetings
for the Food Defense PDG. The audience voted and agreed upon
quarterly meetings. Time periods will change to yield participation
from international members. Neal Fredrickson provided the
members to self-nominate as the Secretary of the Food Defense
PDG for 2023.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Neal Fredrickson and Kristin Schill have been recognized and
declared as Chair and Vice Chair of the Food Defense PDG.
Next Meeting Date: July 13, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July 31,
2022.
Chairperson: Neal Fredrickson.
Food Fraud Prevention PDG
Attendees: Steven Gendel (Vice Chair), Alia Blais, Takiyah
Ball, Jonathan Basha, Bertrand Emond, Tara Fandrich, Enrique
Zuniga, Tracey David, Teresa Fox, Deepa Thiagarajan, Weilin
Shelver, Nicole Prentice, Fred Soderstrom, Akhila Vasan, Richard
Jacobs, Cameron Parsons, Manpreet Singh, Ron Sarver,
Jacqueline Cordova, Jani Holopainen, Susan Teegardin, Neal
Fredrickson, Kolawole Banwo, Rachel Stiening, Lone Jespersen,
Adeniyi Odugbemi, William Lachowsky, Sara Mortimore, Rafael
Ferreira, Steven Sklare.
Number of Attendees: 30.
Meeting Called to Order: 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July
31, 2022.
Old Business: The PDG Approved the minutes of the previous
meeting and reviewed the list of scientific sessions co-sponsored
by the PDG in the 2022 Annual Meeting.
New Business: In the absence of the PDG Chair, the meeting
was led by the Vice Chair.
The PDG reviewed IAFP conflict of interest policies and
received an update from the Board.
The PDG discussed ideas for sessions and workshops to
be proposed for the next Annual Meeting. There was agreement
that there are many people new to fraud mitigation who would
benefit from an information session that defined the technical
terminology and outlined how to build a fraud mitigation program.
There was broad agreement that a pre-meeting workshop would
be valuable to provide hands-on experience with available tools
for vulnerability assessment.
Several participants raised the issue of how difficult it can be
to find and implement cost-effective testing methods to identify
adulterated ingredients and products. Methods developers find
that this lack of clarity prevents them from being able to meet
industry needs. It was also pointed out that some very effective
testing methods do not require sophisticated equipment (for
example, microscope evaluation).
The international nature of food fraud vulnerability and
prevention was discussed.
One participant suggested that the focus of the IAFP
program should be on the safety consequences of food fraud.
Members of the PDG agreed to work toward developing a
pre-meeting workshop proposal and to organizing at least one
webinar before the next Annual Meeting/
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, July 31,
2022.
Chairperson: John Spink.
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