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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Old Business: The previous year's meeting minutes were approved and the
IAFP Board response for workshop funding was reviewed. Executive Board
announcements were conveyed.
New Business: IAFP 2024 symposia/roundtables discussed. Audience
mentioned S20 and S22 as additional symposia to attend pertaining to pet
food.
Ms. Savannah Stewart (Kansas State University) presents on Salmonella
survivability in rendering fats, as well as cleaning practices of trucks and
tanks, and sanitizer efficacy on biofilms on HDPE.
Ms. Jenny Murphy presented " FDA Propels the Frontiers of Animal Health
Innovation " . She discussed the need for innovative technologies grounded
in science and safety, and how the Center for Veterinary Medicine regulates
the pet and animal food industry, including the AVIA and its objectives and
trajectories.
Dr. Michelle Sayles gives the Pet Food Alliance Overview in the place of Dr.
Jennifer Martin. She highlights the importance of research being guided by
industry input, as well as top challenges the industry is currently facing.
Meeting cut short at 2:15 pm due to fire alarm evacuation.
Discuss Symposium/Roundtable/Workshop for IAFP 2025 Annual Meeting
or Webinars
Topics: Industry trends (e.g., new products, safety concerns, monitoring
data), safety concerns including foreign materials, Salmonella, and
mycotoxins, regulatory updates (e.g., regulation, recalls, traceback),
technology advances (e.g., methods, metagenomics, mitigation).
Ideas: Lessons learned from recent pet food outbreaks and recalls
(Midwestern Pet Foods, Mid America Pet Food), Novel ingredients for pet
food (e.g., insects).
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Appoint Dr. Michelle Sayles (Diamond Pet Foods) as the Vice Chair for
the Animal and Pet Food Safety PDG, 2024-2026.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: Sunday, July 14, 2:15 p.m.
Chairperson Name: Dr. Li (Maria) Ma
Applied Laboratory Methods PDG
Attendees: Alex Tudor, Getahun Agga, Marc Allard, Alphajou Bah, III, Stan
Bailey, Takiyah Ball, Peter Ben Embarek, Rachel Binet, Patrick Bird, Dr.
Preetha Biswas, Amy Bosco, Alex Brandt, Amanda Brookhouser-Sisney,
Dana Buckman, Ariel Buehler, Laurel Burall, Astrid Cariou, Austin Cary, Mike
Clark, Vanessa Coffman, Roger Cook, Nisha Corrigan, Erin Crowley, Bryant
Davenport, Jim Dickson, Tian Ding, Melanie Downs, Erin Dreyling, JeanMarc
Durano, Vik Dutta, Emilio Esteban, Patrick Fach, Amanda Farrens,
Peyman Fatemi, Jinsong Feng, Beilei Ge, Solomon Gebru, Lawrence
Goodridge, Sanjay Gummalla, Jisun Haan, Eddie Hall, Lauren Hamilton,
Yihan He, Lili He, Yosra Helmy, Sunee Himathongkham, Kristen Hunt,
John Jarosh, Craig Jewell, Zerlinde Johnson, Suzanne Jordan, Minji Kim,
Kento Koyama, Quynh-Nhi Le, David Legan, Sherita Li, Huanli Liu, Paul
Liu, Pierre-Luc Longchamps, Gabriela Lopez Velasco, Yuxiao Lu, Xiaonan
Lu, Jackie Lyle, Cynthia Mangione, Doug Marshall, Ryan Maus, Rodrigo
Mendoza, Joseph Meyer, Minto Michael, Patrick Mies, Erica Miller, Jesse
Miller, Jennifer Miller, Molly Mills, John Mills, Scott Moosekian, fernando
mora, Nandini Natrajan, Jeff Nauseda, Jodi Nickerson, Sokhom Panhavatey,
Trevor Phister, Sophie Pierre, Karen Pietrzen, Laurie Post, Bill Potter, Jane
Pouzou, Patricia Quinn, Christophe Quiring, Sarita Raengpradub, Ravinder
Reddy, Amber Richards, Lisa Riesberg, Kis Robertson Hale, Marie-Eve
Rousseau, Lilian Saad, Gabriel Sanglay, John Schmidt, April Schumacher,
Brooke Schwartz, Anru Shen, Malavika Sinha, Daniel Smieszek, Brad
Stawick, Sara Sterkel Colombo, Antoine Stevens, Stacy Stoltenberg, Sloane
Stoufer, Irshad Sulaiman, Hilary Sullivan, Sriya Sunil, Nikki Taylor, Margaret
Tentser, Pheara Tep, Leslie Thompson-Strehlow, LaTaunya Tillman, JeanPhilippe
Tourniaire, Grace Tung, Branko Velebit, Ashwini Wagh, Isabel Walls,
Chun Wang, Kaidi Wang, Julie Weller, Shuang Wu, Shiwei Xu, Eiki Yamasaki,
Mu Ye, Hung-Yueh Yeh, Anthony Zoropogui.
Number of Attendees: 129.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10:19 a.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Amanda Brookhouser-Sisney
(ALM PDG Secretary).
Old Business: Reviewed the Anti-Trust Guidelines and approved the 2023
minutes. Dan DeMarco (ALM PDG Chair) provided Board announcements.
Reviewed the 2024 symposium and roundtable sessions accepted and
in the program for primary and secondary ALM PDG sponsorship. Three
symposia were accepted where the ALM PDG was the primary sponsor,
three symposia were accepted where the ALM PDG was the secondary
sponsor, and one roundtable where the PDG was the Primary Sponsor.
Board responses to the 2023 recommendations were reviewed. It was
noted that the Board made no change in the distribution of the anti-trust
guidelines presented by each PDG, which was noted in 2023 to be repetitive
to those who attend multiple PDG meetings.
Regarding the recommendation to improve the IAFP Meeting App, David
Legan provided some insights, as it was not clear to the Board what issue
needed to be addressed. Specifically, the IAFP App does not connect to the
web program. If you are making selections on the website for sessions to
attend, it does not add these into the app. This can present a challenge for
those who have trouble viewing the app and prefer to make selections on a
computer with a larger screen size.
Dan DeMarco read the poem " The Night Before IAFP " .
Applied Laboratory Methods (ALM) Professional Development Group (PDG)
Executive Committee was provided: Chair: Daniel R. DeMarco (Eurofins),
Vice Chair: Julie Weller (Hygiena), Secretary: Amanda Brookhouser-Sisney
(Midwest Laboratories), Student Liaison: Pranita Surendra Patil (UGA),
Board Liaison: Manpreet Singh, Staff Liaison: Dina Siedenburg.
New Business: A reminder was given to attendees to please introduce
themselves prior to speaking, so that the meeting notes can accurately
reflect who said what. Julie Weller (Vice Chair) introduced the validation
and verification interest group. The leads of each validation and verification
interest group initiative will present for their respective project. David
Legan spoke for the Method Considerations Subgroup, which is led by
David Legan and Laurie Post. He noted that the Validation and Verification
group started five years ago at the IAFP meeting. Its goal was to provide
resources to anyone working in a lab lacking guidance on how to execute
method verification and validations, as at the time there where limited
materials available outside of the AOAC Appendix J, which does not include
all aspects of how to execute these types of microbiological studies. The
intended objective of the group was to provide practical guidance that
would assist end users.
Since its conception in 2019, the Verification and Validation (V&V) Interest
Group has published five articles in (FPT). Three of the published articles
have won the most viewed interest article award by IAFP. The 2022 efforts
produced the publication " Evaluating Microbiological Method Equivalence
- A Decision Guide " in May/June 2023 edition of Food Protection Trends
and won the Most Viewed FPT General Interest Publication 2024, which
is the second consecutive FPT " most viewed " award. In 2023 the group
collaborated on another article, titled " Discrepancies in the Microbiological
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