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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Group 2: (1) Agenda and clear goals from the PDGs, longer meetings
(moving it the way it was last year). (2) Standardization (roundtable) of
terminology, risk matrix and decision tree. (3) Link R&D with Food Safety.
(4) More training.
HACCP PDG will be looking for volunteers to draft a short abstract
(including identifying speakers) for the topics identified within these
groups. Deadline for 2025 submissions is October 1, 2024. Please reach
out to Bala Kottapalli and Lone Jespersen for any questions. Symposia
& roundtable requirements: https://iafp.confex.com/iafp/2022/cfp.cgi.
Workshop requirements: https://iafp.confex.com/iafp/2022/work/cfp.cgi.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Continue to motivate students to engage in HACCP PDG via HACCP
PDG Student awards.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Bala Kottapalli
International Food Protection Issues PDG
Attendees: Marcel Zwietering (Chair), Constanza Vergara (Vice Chair),
Hiroki Abe, Carmen Alvarez, George Anderson, Al Baroudi, Peter Ben
Embarek, DeAnn Benesh, David Blomquist, Puja Boidya, Yang Chen, Zoila
Chevez, Erin Crowley, Mary-Grace Danao, Damarys Del Castillo, Sabahnur
Demirci, Caroline Smith DeWaal, Mary Donaldson, Elizabeth Duffy, Jeff
Farber, Elise Forward, Anahita Ghorbani Tajani, Gustavo Gonzalez, Leon
Gorris, Fabiana Guglielmone, Olivia Haley, Arie Havelaar, Leslie Hintz, Kathy
Knutson, Bobby Krishna, Elisabetta Lambertini, Quynh-Nhi Le, Ioannis
Liatsos, Mark Loh, Shannon Majowicz, Yuki Minato, Charles Muyanja,
Krystalyn Nation, Kenneth Nieves, Rocio Ortega, Mavra Qamar, Jeffrey
Read, Ravinder Reddy, Aniket Sharma, Tracie Sheehan, Sloane Stoufer,
Katherine MJ Swanson, Jason Wan, Yikai Yang, Kang Zhou.
Number of Attendees: 49.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 2.45 p.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Constanza Vergara.
Old Business: The Minutes of the 2023 meeting were asking to the
participants if they have any comments, otherwise if they might be
considered approved. No comments were presented. Minutes were
approved. It was communicated that all the last year recommendations
were done to the Board and the answer received: Constanza Vergara E as
Vice Chair of the PDG - approved by the Board.
Take initiative to speed-up Visa Applications for many international
participants, either as IAFP or jointly with other scientific associations -
IAFP routinely provides a letter of support to assist attendees in attending
the Annual Meeting. IAFP staff will investigate other routes to support these
applications and appreciate any initiatives of which the PDG is aware. Ask
the Executive Board to host a session where is possible to connect PDGs
where broader links can be made, including the high-level views across
the Board. The Board would like clarification on this recommendation. We
currently hold the Chair/Vice Chairperson Meeting and the Chairperson
Breakfast to provide networking and sharing of best practices
On this matter several comments were provided by the participants, since
there are a lot of proposals that are not being approved. PDGs may search
for linkages to improve those proposals where similarities are found.
Also create instances where similar proposals from different PDGs may
be discussed by the PDG's Chair in order to merge them, this was also
mentioned as being a good idea to facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation,
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bringing new people or new scientist together since sometimes it is difficult
to reach for people on the 2-month time given between the meeting and the
proposal deadline.
Regarding the IFPI PDG webinars done during past year: A list of the
webinars that were organized was shown to the audience and informed
that the recording can be found now at IAFP website. There were in total 5
webinars and it was encouraged to participants to keep sending ideas for
webinars.
For 2024 Annual Meeting program 16 proposals from 26 were accepted
(13 Symposia and 3 roundtables), as primary or secondary sponsor by IFPI
PDG. It was better than the average we have had on the past years, with
62% of acceptance. The program for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
sessions and roundtable was mentioned and participants were encouraged
to attend. DeAnn Benesh presented the progress on the Regulatory System
Project and Kang Zhou gave an update on the progress of FAO.
New Business: A round of consultation for ideas on next year meeting
topics for symposia or roundtable proposals were done and the ideas
expressed were: Leon Gorris: a session on chemical risk assessment in
water reuse since new chemicals like PFAS are now in the picture, with
academic speakers, government and industry speaking about emerging
hazards. Caroline Smith de Waal: The GAIN organization is finishing its
project which worked on traditional markets in Africa, as a result a Codex
Guideline for Food Hygiene in traditional markets was developed. So, a
session to look on training mechanism for Africa, South East Asia, and
Latin America and to share the information about this standard being
out there and how we may use it. Ian Jenson: Develop a session on
temperature control for frozen foods in international supply chains since
the temperature proposed in the Global Codex Standard is now challenging
by international industry, for example with some ice cream industry asking
about -12°C. Arie Havelaar: There is a symposium this year on the Global
Foodborne Diseases Burden and after the symposium with the questions
and feedback received, we will seek for new ideas for a follow up session on
the topic. Jeff Farber: a session on the use of AI in food industry globally,
internationally, retail level, and in years' time potentially regulation, for
example how it's been used on the improvement of risk communication
strategies using the AI. Peter Ben Embarek: Regarding the session in
water, we should also include antimicrobial-resistance genes, surveillance
of other pathogens, make and update on where we are with the work on
water safety. Also, with COVID and HPAI, we are facing situations where
we are questioning what a foodborne pathogen is and how regulators can
deal with these new emerging issues, so that is something to consider
for a session. Jason Wan: How Global international Standards can be
used to develop more international training materials on food safety. All
the ideas will be discussed again during the next quarterly PDG online
meeting. It was informed that Submission deadline of October 1, 2024, for
all proposals.
Other Business: A call for new vice chair of the PDG was issued at the
meeting and will be also done through IAFP Connect, all those who are
interested were urged to contact current PDG´s Chairs.
PDG quarterly meetings will be maintained, but more participation and
engagement was asked to participants.
The list of non-accepted proposals where IFPI PDG was the primary
sponsor was shared and it was agreed that an opportunity to convert to a
webinar will be possible and be discussed during quarterly PDG meetings.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Develop a system that allows verification that submissions were truly
sponsored by a PDG before going for program committee evaluation.
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