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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
STANDING COMMITTEES
Food Protection Trends Management Committee
Attendees: Laura Strawn (Chair), Connie Fisk (Vice Chair), Frederick
Adzitey, Ana Allende, Angela Anandappa, " Bala " Balamurugan, Teresa
Bergholz, Ernest Bonah, Fred Breidt, Christine Bruhn, Zonia Elizabeth
Caro-Carvajal, Jessica Chen, Cathy Cutter, Darin Detwiler, Doris D'Souza,
Laurel Dunn, Yaohua Feng, Melanie Firestone, Julia Fukuba, Mark Gannon,
Stephanie Gates, Dale Grinstead, Stephen Grove, Joshua Gurtler, Lauren
Jackson, Armitra Jackson-Davis, Kent Juliot, Arshpreet Kaur Khattra, Kali
Kniel, Jovana Kovacevic, Alvin Lee, Judy Luther, Chip Manuel, Yvonne
Masters, Joseph Meyer, Kathleen O'Donnell, Hae Woong Park, Ruth Petran,
Sarita Raengpradub, Jason Scheffler, Panos Skandamis, John Spink,
Preethi Thiruvengadam, Purnendu Vasavada, Daniel Weller, Ian Young.
Board/Staff Present: Manan Sharma, Manpreet Singh, Tamara Ford.
Number of Attendees: 48.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1:03 p.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Connie Fisk.
Introductions - past, present and new members. Manpreet Singh provided
an update from the IAFP Executive Board. Tamara Ford provided an
updated from the IAFP Staff. Cathy Cutter provided an updated on FPT
as the Editor on publication article metrics. Jovana moved for approval
of minutes; Dan seconded. There was no discussion, and there was a
unanimous vote to approve the minutes as distributed. Dan moved to
approve agenda; Angela seconded. There was no discussion, and there was
a unanimous vote to approve agenda as distributed.
The committee reviewed the 2023 Board Responses. Everyone was thrilled
that articles are open access after 6 months now, and several other
changes like DOIs. Next year (2025) we will need to elect a Vice Chair ~ if
interested in being nominated, please reach out to Laura, Connie, Cathy or
anyone on the IAFP staff to chat more about responsibilities- it is a very
fun job.
Celebrated the exceptional reviewer award: Angela Fraser, Clemson
University (Kudos), also thank you to all the FPT reviewers.
Old Business: Continued the conversation from our June 2024 meeting
which discussed Judy Luther's report on FPT evolution. Topics discussed
ranged from: providing summary highlights from the most attended
sessions (maybe engage students, what would this look like for them), IAFP
sessions to general interest publications (spearheaded by sponsoring PDG
and FPT members), request fees for product placement ads in FPT, move
presidents/exec columns to video or other forum, FPT articles with video
promos, interviews with authors, or short audio or video content that can be
clicked on to engage more article views, popular FPT articles to webinars
to highlight content, and author Q&A, and more about accessibility of FPT
(less clicks, ease of access to articles, etc.). Other conversations occurred
around further engagement with students and other PDGs for FPT content
from annual meeting.
New Business: Continued digestion of Judy Luther's report. Could winners
of the technical session awards be invited to write something short for the
potential special issue or students from the 3-minute thesis competition?
This could also be a mentorship opportunity for students.
Generation of a webinar for all IAFP Members to learn about the findings from
our interviews and discussions with IAFP Members from the Judy Luther
Report. Laura, Cathy and Judy to work on this effort for upcoming year.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. We recommend that the Executive Board allow FPT to have a special
issue on the IAFP Annual Meeting which would consist of FPT being
able to develop a set of instructions or call for articles from the IAFP
symposia, roundtables, technical talks, posters, etc. from members/
PDGs (call target fall 2024; target issue spring 2025). All approved,
Cathy abstained.
2. We recommend that the Executive Board provide input on how to
proceed with the industry products section of FPT, specifically, can
FPT charge for these product placements/advertisements/promos?
All approved, Cathy abstained.
3. We recommend that the Executive Board remove the President's and
Executive Director's columns from FPT. Instead use any preferred
format chosen by the President and Executive Director to provide
their IAFP updates, announcements and activity happenings to the
membership. This will allow real-time updates. All approved, Cathy
abstained.
4. We recommend that the Executive Board allow FPT to use and
support multi-media options (such as videos) to promote FPT
articles. Maybe a trial period. All approved, Cathy abstained.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:22 p.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Laura K. Strawn
Journal of Food Protection Management Committee
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Arshpreet Kaur.
Old Business: The meeting started at 2:45 p.m. Ian Young gave a
brief introduction followed by the committee members and attendees
introducing themselves. Following the introduction, Ian Young appointed
Arshpreet Kaur as the recording secretary. Ian then thanked and
acknowledged Matt Moore for his service as outgoing chairperson, and
summarized some thank you remarks provided by Matt as he was not
able to attend the meeting. Ian welcomed Teresa Bergholz as the newly
nominated Vice Chair for the Committee. A formal motion to nominate
Teresa to the Executive Board was put forward and approved by the
Committee. Ian then welcomed all the new committee members and
thanked exiting committee members. Next, Ian sought the approval of the
minutes of the meeting of 2023 from the committee members. A motion
was passed to approve the minutes of the meeting from 2023.
Manan Sharma provided a brief Executive Board update to the committee.
Following this, Mark Gannon from Elsevier provided an update on JFP
metrics and performance over the past year. Overall, the metrics indicate
the journal is performing well very after its transition to Elsevier. In 2023,
the journal saw an 8% increase in the number of submitted articles in JFP,
with 385 submissions overall. The 2024 year-to-date numbers are close
to steady compared to last year. The number of accepted articles also
increased from 162 to 171 in 2023 and is 24% higher in 2024 (year-to-date).
It was noted that this is considered very successful for the first transition
year compared to other journals that have switched from a subscriptionbased
to fully open-access model.
Mark noted that the Impact Factor of the journal increased slightly from 2
to 2.1 in 2023. There is an expectation that this will continue to improve in
the future. Strategies to increase the Impact Factor include encouraging
high-quality review articles (e.g., editor-invited reviews), publishing on
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