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COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT GROUP MINUTES
Since sometimes people can check the boxes and not actually had
been reviewed and sponsored at PDG level.
2. It would be great for non-accepted proposals to have a mechanism
where feedback can be asked, when someone wants to present the
proposal again, but doesn´t know what can be improved.
3. See if is possible to create a way where PDGs may linkages together
before the IAFP Annual Meeting to improve those proposals where
similarities were found by the Program Committee, for example
an instance 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 for diminish the amount of proposals
that are rejected and to facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation,
bringing new people or new scientist together since sometimes it is
difficult to reach for people on the 2-month time gave between the
meeting and the proposal presentation.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 4:16 p.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Marcel Zwietering
Low-Water Activity Foods PDG
Attendees: Erdogan Ceylan (Chair), Ariel Buehler (Vice Chair), Shirin Abd,
Jorge Acosta, Jennifer Acuff, Gary Acuff, Manita Adhikari, Nurul Hawa
Ahmad, Nate Anderson, Avigaile Armstrong, Dan Belina, Bruna Bertoldi,
Yige Bima, Patrick Bird, April Bishop, Neil Bogart, Deborah Briesmeister,
Caio Carvalho, Kaicie Chasteen-Ko, Ava Chavez, Han Chen, Shihyu Chuang,
Darlene Cowart, Yaxi Dai, Toni de Senna, Scott Deterding, Jessica Dryke,
Elise Forward, Luana Franco, Stephanie Gates, Beilei Ge, Tina Gettis,
Junia Gilles-Beaubrun, Ezio Giuliani, Carly Gomez, Fanny Gozzi, Elizabeth
Grasso-Kelley, Ben Graves, Snigdha Guha, Nicolette Hall, Lauren Hamilton,
John Henry Hanlin, Daniel Hayward, Ian Hildebrandt, John Holah, Yuewei
Hu, Kristen Hunt, Atef Idriss, Keith Ito, Bala Jagadeesan, Don Jones, Caitlin
Karolenko, Veeramani Karuppuchamy, Jasmine Kataria, Martha Kimber,
Ian Klug, Elma Kontor-Manu, Jeffrey Kornacki, Xiyang Liu, Paul Liu, Patrick
Logan, Xiaonuo Long, William Long, Yuqian Lou, Bradley Marks, Meredith
Maynard, Rachel McEgan, Lynne McLandsborough, Christopher McNamara,
Tracy Meyers, Molly Miller, Molly Mills, Gerardo Morantes, Kala Morris,
Laura Munoz Leyva, Nadia Narine, Kasey Nelson, Donna Novev, Wilfredo
Ocasio, Adeniyi Odugbemi, Mike O'Rourke, Scott Osborne, Shway Patel,
Kavita Patil, Anne-Marie Perchec Merien, Trevor Phister, Monica Ponder,
Laurie Post, Raghu Ramaswamy, Narindra Randriamiarintsoa, David
Rasmussen, Catherine Rolfe, Kaylee Rumbaugh, Luis Sabillon Galeas, Joelle
Salazar, Jarryd Samples, Travis Sananikone, Arnab Sarkar, Arlette Shazer,
Gregory Siragusa, Diana Stewart, Autumn Stoll, Jeyam Subbiah, Cassandra
Suther, Iryna Syb, Abdullatif Tay, Aaron Uesugi, Ron Van Santen, Rosie
VanLuven, Victoria Wagoner, Luxin Wang, Benjamin Warren, Ava Weyrich,
Shecoya White, Justin Wiertzema, Anett WInkler, Yucen Xie, Eduardo
Ximenes, Shiwei Xu.
Number of Attendees: 117.
Meeting Called to Order: Sunday, July 14, 2024, 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time.
Minutes Recording Secretary: Ariel Buehler.
Old Business: 2023 meeting minutes were reviewed and approved with no
objections.
New Business: Six symposia and roundtables were accepted for this
year's meeting. Two guest speakers from PepsiCo, Dr. Rico Suhalim and
Dr. Abdullatif Tay presented on 'Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella in
Soft Cookies in Baking Process'. Mallika Mahida presented Student PDG
updates. We then discussed recommendations to the Executive Board.
Only one recommendation was raised around increasing the accessibility
of water activity curriculum internationally by Atef Idriss. Roundtable/
symposium/workshop topic ideas were discussed with the group as a
whole. Twelve topics were raised, including: i) scientific advancements
of flour safety (Scott Osborne), ii) water activity meters/availability
internationally (Atef Idriss), iii) world class EMP program (Jeff Kornacki), iv)
dry sanitation workshop (Neil Bogart), v) dried and untreated fruit (Laurie
Post), vi) ingredients and their differing interventions through production
that address different commodities (Jennifer Acuff), vii) low-moisture
pet food and spoilage (Jasmine Kataria), viii) redefining zones (Erdogan
Ceylan), ix) definition of a clean break (Arnab Sarkar), x) forgotten parts of
supply chain-rail cars, silos (David Rasmussen), xi) workshop idea-take
one entire process and provide comprehensive overview of food safety
topics (Jeff Kornacki), xii) seasoning mixes-food safety considerations
(Anne-Marie Perchec Merien). The frequency of PDG calls was also
discussed, and it was determined that monthly calls until January will take
place.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Increase accessibility of water-activity curricula internationally.
2. Recommendation to approve Ariel Buehler as Vice Chair for
Low-Water Activity Foods PDG.
Next Meeting Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025, Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:50 p.m. Pacific Time.
Chairperson Name: Erdogan Ceylan
Meat and Poultry Safety and Quality PDG Meeting
Attendees: Melvin Carter (Chair), Frederick Adzitey, Getahun Agga, Sue
Allyn, George Anderson, Laura Araujo, Cynthia Austin, Liliana Avaroma,
" Bala " Balamurugan, Ronny Barrera, Greeshma Bharathan, Preetha Biswas,
Micah Black, Sabrina Blandon, Melissa Bohn, Jennifer Bosquez, Deborah
Briesmeister, Jessica Brown, Jessica Bruckhoff, Myrna Cadena, Michelle
Catlin, Bhaswati Chowdhury, Ashley Chung, Kim Cook, Nisha Corrigan,
Paula J. Cray, Courtney Crist, Jianli Dai, Mary-Grace Danao, Thomas
Danisavich, Jim Dickson, Martin Duplessis, Denise Eblen, Patrick Fach,
Yuyuan Feng, Suzanne Finstad, David Flicek, Sid Fuller, Rebecca Furbeck,
Jacob Garman-Davenport, Jake Gilgen, Kathleen Glass, Kenisha Odessa
Gordon, Jakob Gryniewski, Jisun Haan, Rob Halstead, Rita Harkless, Yosra
Helmy, Joe Hirsch, Garth Hoffmann, Melinda Hollins, Hiroya Hoshino,
Md Saiful Islam, John Jarosh, Justyce Jedlicka, Kimberly Jefferson, Ian
Jenson, Melissa Joaquin, Sarah Johnson, Don Jones, Ron Judge, Minho
Kim, Jason Knuckey, Larry Kohl, Shige Koseki, Heath LaFevers, Rosa
Ledezma, Pierre-Luc Longchamps, Kyle Lunsford, Jackie Lyle, Luis MarotoMartin,
Terence martin, Eric Martin, Monica Morales, Amit Morey, Claudia
Narvaez, Neda Nasheri, Megin Nichols, Rocio Nunez, Estefania OrellanaPizzato,
Katheryn Parraga, Ben Pascoe, Urmi Patel, Jane Pouzou, Jorge
Rincon, Kis Robertson Hale, Dominic Rodriguez, Robert Roe, Ariana Roldan,
Isaac Romero, Maria Rubio, Marcos Sanchez-Plata, Deborah Sattely,
Jason Scheffler, Wayne Schlosser, John Schmidt, Keith Schuetz, Brooke
Schwartz, Caroline Scranton, Hunter Sheffield, Subash Shrestha, Amy
Siceloff, Katherine Sierra, Manpreet Singh, Gregory Siragusa, Erin Slutz,
Rigo Soler, Kristal Southern, Shabarinath Srikumar, Sara Sterkel Colombo,
Meredith Sutzko, Sudipta Talukder, Thomas Taylor, Gry Terrell, Deepa
Thiagarajan, Leslie Thompson-Strehlow, Mark Turner, Jennifer Turpin, Brian
Tyler, Becky Unwer, Abhinav Upadhyay, Persephone Valentine, Adwy van
den Berg, Jessie Vipham, Richard Walsh, Hui Wang, Stevie Ward, Evelyn
Watts, Vanessa Whitmore, Anett WInkler, Patrick Wouters, Shaelyn Xu, Eiki
Yamasaki, Zhinong Yan, Lei Zhang.
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