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Group 6 - Utilization of virus and protozoan surrogates
during method development.
Group 7 - Sharing information and access to it.
Standardization across research labs?
General Announcement: It was mentioned that we will
be electing the Vice Chair in spring 2023 so please consider
nominating yourself or others.
Recommendations to the Executive Board: None.
Next Meeting Date: July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Julie Jean.
Water Quality and Safety PDG
Attendees: Leon Gorris (Chair), Daniel Weller (Vice Chair)
Claire Murphy, Chantal Nde, Leon Gorris, Quynh-Nhi Le, Rob
Donofrio, Autumn Kraft, Kang Zhou, James Widmer, Laura
Pineda-Bermudez, Socrates Trujillo, Elizabeth Bihn, Manreet
Bhullar, Diana Hao, Mauricio Durigan, Tahirah Johnson,
Jasmine Smalls, Nikki Shariat, Connie Fisk, Olivia Haley, Pete
Kennedy, Jie Zheng, Eric Stevens, Julie Haendiges, Collins
Bugingo, Leslie Hintz, Manan Sharma, Adam Baker, Jitu Patel,
Ana Allende Prieto, Sean Fogarty, Aishwarya Rao, Miguel
Gutierrez, Shuopeng Yang, Yuqian Lou, Theresa Mazure, Rachel
Rodriguez, Sarita Raengpradub, Ali Parvanehvar, Julie Kase,
Guodong Zhang, Amy Siceloff, Adriana Jimenez Lopez, Greg
Komar, Laurie George, Peter Kennedy, Steve Murphy, Joshua
Gurtler, Cangliang Shen, Annalisa Hultberg, Donna Clements,
Phillip Tocco, Don Stoeckel, Elisabetta Lambertini, Devin LaPolt,
Michala Krakowski, Brian Goodwyn, Carl Custer, Alda Pires,
Cameron Bardsley, Alexis Hamilton, Cyril Nsom Ayuk Etaka,
Anett Winkler, Matthew Hahs, William Burkhardt, III, Jessica
Jones, Jacquelina Woods, Michelle Smith, Diane Ducharme.
Number of Attendees: 68.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 31, 2022.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Olivia Haley, Student Liaison.
Old Business: We started the annual in-person PDG meeting
with self-introductions from Leon (current President), Dan Weller
(current Vice-President, incoming President) and Olivia Haley
(student liaison). Leon also recognized Phyllis Posey (secretary)
and Elizabetta Lambertini (prior President). We moved forward
with brief introductions from the audience members and then
Leon reviewed the agenda for the day's meeting. Leon asked if
any audience member would like to add a topic to the agenda; no
further topics were raised.
We discussed the 2021 PDG Meeting Minutes and a motion
was made to adopt the minutes; the motion was seconded
and there were none opposed. Afterwards, Leon reviewed the
responses from the 2021 recommendations to the IAFP board,
which did not raise immediate discussion.
New Business: Next, Leon and Olivia provided an overview of
the sessions accepted for this year's IAFP program which were
co-sponsored by the PDG and provided an overview of sessions
which the audience may find of interest. The PDG's frequent
collaboration with the Fruit and Vegetable Safety PDG was noted,
and audience members were invited to think of additional PDGs
with which we can form collaborative efforts.
There were six planned speakers to update on different
topics of interest to the PDG: Manan Sharma, Elisabeth A.
Bihn, Claire Murphy, Olivia C. Haley, Kang Zhou, and Phyllis
Posey. The latter two provided updates from an international
perspective. Then the floor was opened for impromptu short
updates from the audience members. Sean Fogarty provided an
update.
We then started brainstorming ideas for sessions at IAFP
2023 and/or the European IAFP 2023 meetings. In a lively
discussion some 15 ideas for symposium of RT session were
developed, and other possibly interested PDGs identified.
With International Food Protection Issues PDG: 1. Water
treatment technologies for resource-limited environments;
2. Microbial risk management of water in resource challenged
areas; 3. One Health and Water; How climate change with
affect water quality.
With the Food Safety Education PDG: 1. Roundtable on
careers in water safety (also with Student PDG?); 2. Symposium
on the science of plant-water-microbe interactions.
With the Preharvest Food Safety and/or Fruit and Vegetables
Safety & Quality PDG: 1. Lessons learned from the water data
(i.e., from SWARMS, NARMS); 2. It takes a village part II:
Background and guidance on the updated Agricultural Water
Safety. 3: The basics. 4. Improving grower understanding of
preharvest agricultural water.
Advanced Molecular Analytics PDG: Water Microbial
Contamination and Environmental Sampling.
With support of DEI council? LGBT perspectives and
experiences in food and water safety and quality.
On webinars, Leon suggested to organize a series
of four sessions on the microbiological risk assessments
reports developed by FAO/WHO for Codex Alimentarius:
general principles, application to produce, fisheries and dairy.
Collaboration would be thought with the respective PDGs.
There was also an idea to stage a non-commercial workshop
on these reports on the Saturday before IAFP 2023.
These various ideas were recorded in an Excel Sheet and
the lead contact for each session and their contact information
was recorded to follow up on the session planning progress at a
later date before final submission on 4 October 2022.
It was suggested that within the PDG we will have a
pre-submission date so the officers of the PDG and those of
supporting PDGs would have time to review the final proposals
in time for the ultimate deadline. Because there were so many
proposals and ideas, it was concluded that a PDG discussion
over conference call early September would be beneficial to take
stock of the stage of development of various proposals in time to
resolve and resolve issues. The dates for the PDG conference
call and pre-submission deadline will be communicated to the
PDG via Connect.
The future open positions in the PDG leadership were
discussed. The audience was informed that the Vice Chair
position was available and that an official call-out will be made on
IAFP Connect. The election will be held online through a platform
like SurveyMonkey.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. It was suggested that, In the spirit of working toward a
truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive meeting, the IAFP
Board agrees to proceed with the creation of a program to
support dependent travel/care for presenters for which their
caregiving is a barrier to their participation.
2. The membership of the WSQ PDG has significant overlap
with that of the International Food Protection Issues PDG,
the Fruit and Vegetable Safety & Quality PDG. To the extent
possible, it is recommended to minimize the overlap in the
timing of the named PDGs to allow members to participate
in these.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 16, 2023, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
Chairperson: Leon Gorris.
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