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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Recommend that the Board improve the functionality of the IAFP
Meeting App, specifically creating connectivity between the IAFP
Annual Meeting website and the application.
2. Recommend to the Board that IAFP establish a yearly award to
recognize an individual or individuals for their contributions to the
PDGs. The winner should have all or most of the following attributes:
A well-established track record of supporting and promoting
participation in IAFP Professional Development Groups; a history of
membership in PDGs and/or leading PDGs and/or serving on their
executive committees; an ability to work within and among the PDGs
to develop programs or materials that showcase their value; a voice
of support both privately and publicly recruiting others to join PDGs
relevant to their areas of expertise or interests.
Next Meeting Date: July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Dan DeMarco
Beverages and Acid/Acidified Foods PDG
Attendees: April Bishop (Chair), Yuqian Lou (Vice Chair), Nate Anderson,
Avigaile Armstrong, Laura Bautista, Peter Ben Embarek, Fred Breidt,
Erdogan Ceylan, Ann Charles Vegdahl, Mario Cobo, Toni de Senna, Sabahnur
Demirci, Melanie Downs, Jessica Dryke, Elise Forward, Julia Fukuba,
Rocelle Grabarek, Colette Grieshop, Leena Griffith, Snigdha Guha, Heather
Hart, Jessica Hofstetter, Keith Ito, Jada Jackson, Craig Jewell, Jasmine
Kataria, Michelle Keener`, Martha Kimber, Paula Klassen, Pratiksha Kotkar,
Ryan Lane, Loralyn Ledenbach, Hyun Jung Lee, Justin Madsen, Christopher
Mains, Mariana Manole, Christopher McNamara, Molly Mills, Wayne
Muraoka, Donna Novev, Jeremy Obritsch, Wilfredo Ocasio, Hae Woong Park,
Robert Price, Gale Prince, Patricia Quinn, Raghu Ramaswamy, Robert Roe,
Catherine Rolfe, Janet Rowat Kraiss, Jarryd Samples, Sarah Sanderson,
John Saniga, Arnab Sarkar, Kristin Schill, Arlette Shazer, Marion Shepherd
Jr, Amarat (Amy) Simonne, Dara Smith, Rick Stokes, Rico Suhalim,
Cassandra Suther, Abdullatif Tay, Thomas Taylor, Jennifer Todd, Barbara
Vazquez Del Mercado, Ashwini Wagh, Matthew Walter, Rory Wang, Wendy
White, Pamela Wilger, Jasmine Williams, Rob Yemm, May Yeow.
Number in Attendance: 73.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Meeting Recording Secretary: Julia Fukuba, Student Liaison (2024-2025
term): - Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Agenda items: Introductions: April Bishop - current Chair of Beverages and
Acid/Acidified Foods PDG, Yuqian Lou - current Vice Chair of Beverages
and Acid/Acidified Foods PDG, Julia Fukuba - Student Liaison for 20242025
term of Beverages and Acid/Acidified Foods PDG.
Announcements from Pam-Incoming Secretary of IAFP: This year more
than 3300 attendees, Go to Exhibition Hall, actively discuss about webinar
content. Volunteer? Go to the website, check which committee you are
interested in volunteering, download the IAFP 2024 App for up-to-date
information, Welcome Committee for first-time attendees, guide how to
approach during the IAFP meeting, Quiet Room - outside 104A " Wellness
Room " , IAFP will send out emails/newsletters/Food Protection Trends, if not
receiving any emails, go to Profile settings - can set up which emails you
want, need help? Ask one of the staff if you have more questions.
Announcements from Beverages and Acid/Acidified Foods PDG: Last
term for April Bishop as the Chair, Yuqian Lou (current Vice Chair) will
be Incoming Chair, nominations for Vice Chair position can discuss via
IAFP Connect, online voting, Julia Fukuba will be recording secretary for
Beverages and Acid/Acidified Foods PDG meetings, Antitrust guidelines.
Old Business: Last year Julia Fukuba took meeting minutes of the PDG
meeting and gave an outline about her research topic about safety
parameters in sauerkraut fermentation. Dr. Fred Breidt, USDA ARS gave
presentation about buffer capacity modeling. Symposium/Roundtable
ideas started off with which topics did not get it, then branched out ideas
to generate new ideas. Last year, we had one symposium approved.
Approval of last year's meeting minutes, Rick Stokes motion, Dr. Fred Breidt
seconded.
New Business: Presentation by Erdogan Ceylan, Mérieux NutriSciences,
Alicyclobacillus in beverages and AI/Machine learning.
Student PDG 2024 Updates: Update provided by Julia Fukuba, Meet Your
Favorite Scientist, 3MT Competition, Proposal Submission, Interested to get
involved? - Contact Ivannova Lituma - Incoming Student PDG Chair.
Symposium/Roundtable offered in 2024: Have a spreadsheet to see ideas
accepted for 2024 and those not. This year - a lot of sessions approved!
Webinar: How Can We Effectively Reuse Water End-To-End: Creating
Equitable Future, June 17, 2024.Roundtables and Symposium during 2024
IAFP Annual Meeting: RT9 - Don't Let It Happen Again! Avoiding Another
GIANT Recall in Aseptically Packaged Foods and Beverages, Monday,
July 15th, 1:30 - 3:00 PM. S28 - From Kimchi to Kombucha: Exploring
the Diversity of Fermented Foods, Understanding Preventive Control and
Navigating the Regulatory Ambiguities, Tuesday, July 16th, 8:30 10:00
AM. RT19 - Sweet and Saucy! The Role of Sugar and Other Important
Considerations in the Classification and FDA Filing of Acidified Foods,
Tuesday July 16th, 1:30 - 3:00 PM. Poster Session 2 - Tuesday, July 16th
2024, 8:30 AM - 6:15 PM. Save the date! - Next year's IAFP Annual Meeting
in Cleveland, Ohio, July 27-30, 2025.
Ideas for Symposium/Roundtable 2025: Acidified food - roundtable (the
individual who proposed it was not noted down before the PDG session
was interrupted by fire drill). Title: 'How to turn the Titanic: Are regulations
unsinkable?'Acidified Foods - confusion about regulation/definition/criteria
unclear for industry. Define what are the 'exemptions', such as defining
the pH level, what level of acidity is allowed, how the government defines:
In conjunction of Food Law PDG, Roundtable, Contact/Organizer: Fred
Breidt - interested in a science point of view, science-based regulations.
Wilfredo Ocasio: Holding raw products before thermal processing, what
are the risks (i.e., raw side of the beverage processing, e.g., hold time of
the raw batches). Especially after raw ingredients are hydrated, identifying
the temperature and time etc. and risks from doing that. Implications
of food safety/food science stemming from the overruling of the recent
Supreme Court decision on the Chevron Deference, Roundtable: How
recent overruling of Chevron Deference (from Supreme Court) can impact
FDA in terms of certain rules mean, interpretation for certain industries
be different. How implications of food safety/science will be different
depending on the law, Contact: Mario Cobo, Wilfredo Ocasio. Cold Brew (try
it again with the symposium session - with enhanced content): What in
coffee that provides inhibition (antimicrobials), With Retail PDG, Revamp
the abstract, add recent recall about coffee beverage in Wisconsin contact
Catherine Rolfe, Kristin Schill. Plant-based beverage safety (background:
recall due to Listeria contamination): Look into controls, are they different
from dairy-based beverage, unique challenges of plant-based. Potentially
work with Plant-based PDG, or as a co-sponsor, contact: Kristin Schill.
Unique beverages challenges (this one be combined with the cold brew/
plant-based topics as one).
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