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RESPONSES TO RECOMMENDATIONS
TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
COUNCILS
Affiliate Council
1. The Affiliate Council recommends that Helen Taylor, Delegate
for the United Kingdom Association for Food Protection, be
appointed as the next Affiliate Council Secretary.
Board Response: Agree.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council
1. The IAFP DEI Council recommends having free-standing
lactation pods for nursing mothers at future annual meetings.
Board Response: The staff will investigate if pods or an
alternative space is available at the Convention Center.
2. The IAFP DEI Council recommends having additional stickers
for name badges to self-identify languages spoken and if the
member is hard of hearing.
Board Response: The Board requests that the DEI Council
investigates sticker options, taking into consideration size
limitations.
3. The IAFP DEI Council recommends the IAFP Board consider
having closed captions and American Sign Language (ASL)
interpreters for the Opening Session/Ivan Parkin Lecture and
John H. Silliker Lecture.
Board Response: IAFP asks for ADA requirements at the
time of registration. If requests are made, IAFP will make
accommodations.
4. The IAFP DEI Council recommends nominating Secretary
candidates by geographic region on a rotating basis to
increase international representation on the IAFP Board.
Board Response: The Board will share this suggestion with
the Nominating Committee.
STANDING COMMITTEES
Food Protection Trends Management Committee
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.
Board Response: The Board likes this proposed idea asks
that the FPT Management Committee develop a timeline for
publishing, taking into consideration the timeframe for symposia
acceptance, and develop instructions for a special issue.
2. Make FPT open-access six months after the publication date.
Board Response: This was implemented per the 2023
recommendation.
3. 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.
Board Response: The Board discussed and decided to
eliminate the Industry Products section of the FPT beginning
with the January/February 2025 issue.
4. We recommend that the Executive Board remove the
President's and Executive Director 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.
Board Response: According to the most recent FPT survey,
these columns were valuable to readers. We will expand
our communications beyond the columns to other formats,
including short video clips, updates via email, and other
communications.
5. 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.
Board Response: The Board supports this idea and asks for
the Committee to develop a plan which should include the
multimedia options.
Journal of Food Protection Management Committee
1. The Committee recommends the nomination of Teresa
Bergholz as incoming Vice Chair.
Board Response: The Board approves this nomination.
Foundation Committee
1. Consider making webinars open access (attendance and/or
recordings).
Board Response: Webinar recordings are currently an IAFP
Member benefit. Webinar attendance is open to all.
Program Committee
None.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
3-A Committee on Sanitary Procedures
None.
Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness
1. Based on requests from members, CCFI recommends making
a digital edition of the current edition of the Procedures to
Investigate Foodborne Outbreaks open-access and
available via the IAFP website. Since this edition was
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