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Applied Laboratory Methods Professional Development Group
Mission Statement
To provide a forum for the exchange and sharing of information related to the
development and use of laboratory methods for the analysis of food and related
commodities.
Committee Members
Pamela A. Wilger, Chairperson 2009
Cargill, Inc.
Phone: 952.742.3660
E-mail: pamela_wilger@cargill.com
Vanessa M. Cranford, Vice Chairperson 2009
Walt Disney World
Phone: 407.934.6350
E-mail: vanessa.m.cranford@disney.com
J. Stan Bailey, USDA-ARS, Board Liaison
Tamara Ford, Staff Liaison
Members:
Christine M. Aleski
Susan B. Allen, Beech-Nut
Bassam A. Annous, US Dept. of Agriculture-ARS-ERRC
Patrice Arbault, BioAdvantage Consulting
Terrance M. Arthur, USDA-ARS
Reginald W. Bennett, FDA
James F. Black, IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group
Lance Bolton, DuPont Qualicon
Catherine S. Bowyer, WV Dept of Agriculture
Bruce J. Bradley, Microbial-Vac Systems, Inc.
Byron F. Brehm-Stecher, Iowa State University
Michael H. Brodsky, Brodsky Consultants
Robert W. Brooks, Barrow-Agee Laboratories
Robert L. Brooks, Willow Brook Foods
Daniel G. Brown, Hormel Foods Corp.
Melissa L. Calicchia
Lorraine M. Carlson, Sun-Maid Growers
Mark W. Carter, Silliker, Inc.
Charles N. Carver, III, Epitopix, LLC
Yvonne C. Chan, Kraft Foods
Jinru Chen, University of Georgia
Alessandra O. Chiareli, 3M Microbiology
John R. Chipley, US Smokeless Tobacco Company
Donna M. Christensen, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Richard J. Christianson, Hormel Foods LLC
Rocelle S. Clavero, Sara Lee Corporation
Orla M. Cloak, Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
Stefano Colombo, Silliker Group Corp. – Europe
Nigel Cook, Central Science Laboratory
J. Philip Coombs, MATRIX MicroScience, Inc.
Douglas E. Cosby, USDA, ARS, PMSRU
Julian M. Cox, The University of New South Wales
William C. Cray, Jr., USDA, FSIS
Mark A. Cullison, Merck and Company, Inc.
Daniel R. DeMarco, DuPont
Angela M. DeMocko, Natrol
Angelo DePaola, US FDA
Ruth F. Eden, BioLumix, Inc.
Joseph D. Eifert, Virginia Tech
Jay L.E. Ellingson, Marshfield Clinic Laboratories
Elena Enache, Food Products Association
Greg D. Eppink, Applied Biosystems
Peyman Fatemi, Unilever Foods NA
Sally C. Foong-Cunningham, Ecolab
Tong-Jen Fu, Food & Drug Administration
Anli Gao, University of Guelph
Eileen M. Garry, Advanced Instruments, Inc.
Jill Gebler, Widestreet Pty Ltd.
Beilei Ge, Louisiana State University
Gary E. Gensler, Alberta Agriculture, Food & Rural Dev.
Jackie R. Glover, USDA/AMS
David S. Gottfried, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Jennifer M. Green, PathWest, Food Hygiene Lab
Lorissa R. Green, Jennie-O Turkey Store
Joshua B. Gurtler, USDA/ARS/FSIT/ERRC
Grace Y. Hall, Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services
Brooke V. Houston, Matrix MicroScience Inc.
Yuewei Hu, General Mills
Eve Hughes, Lilydale Foods
Timothy C. Jackson, Nestle SA
Marlene E. Janes, Louisiana State University
Lee-Ann Jaykus, North Carolina State Univ.
Phyllis Jenkins, Kraft
Priya Kadam, USDA/FSIS/OPHS
Robin M. Kalinowski, National Center for Food Safety & Technology
Jeong Soon Kim, Samsung Everland Inc.
Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Kornacki Microbiology Solutions, Inc.
Nahed M. Kotrola, Ecolab
Mark Kreul, In-N-Out Burger
Monique Lacroix, INRS
Keith A. Lampel, Food & Drug Administration
Claire H. Lee, Natick Soldier RD & E Center
Y. Jennifer Lee, Access Business Group
Fritz W. Lembke, Tetra Pak Research GmbH
Vickie Lewandowski, Kraft Foods
Jingkun Li, Strategic Diagnostics, Inc.
Yanbin Li, University of Arkansas
Wendy Maduff, Food Safety Net Services, Ltd.
Francisco Xavier Malcata, Escola Superior Biotecnologia
Nancy Maragioglio, Elsevier
Emily C. Mathusa
Susan A. McCarthy, FDA
Shelagh McDonagh, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Sherri A. McGarry, US Food & Drug Administration
Lynn McIntyre, ESR Ltd.
Ann Marie McNamara, Silliker Inc.
Indaue G. Mello-Hall, PepsiCo/QTG
Solange K. Mikanagu, 3M Canada Company
Sally J. Miller, Fonterra
Molly F. Mills, Rtech Laboratories
Sara Mortimore, Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Shelton E. Murinda, Cal Poly Tech State University
Neelam Narang, USDA/FSIS/Outbreaks Eastern Laboratory
Wendy A. Norman, MATRIX MicroScience
Xiangwu Nou, Food Technology and Safety Laboratory
Peter T. Olsen, New York State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets
Omar A. Oyarzabal, Auburn University
W. A. Parsons, University Research
Suresh D. Pillai, Texas A&M University
Beatriz Quinones, USDA/ARS/WRRC
David Rodriguez-Lazaro, Instituto Technologico Agrario De Castilla Y Leon
Patricia Rule, BioMerieux, Inc.
Michael S. Ryan, ELISA SYSTEMS Pty. Ltd.
Yvonne M. Salfinger, Florida Dept. of Agriculture
Michael Sanna, Brady Enterprises Inc.
James J. Sasanya, North Dakota State University
Theresa M. Scheuring, Silliker Inc.
James D. Schuman, PepsiCo/QTG
Michael Scott, MATRIX MicroScience Ltd.
Travis L. Selby, Johnsonville Sausage
Neal Siegel, Sword Diagnostics
Supat Sirivicha, Strasburger & Siegel, Inc.
Thierry Sofia, bioMérieux
Michael D. Sole, CFIA
Bradley A. Stawick, Stawick Laboratory Management LLC
Jarret D. Stopforth, IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group
Suwimon Suktuayart, Charoen Pokphand Food PLC
Gry Dawn C. Terrell
Leslie K. Thompson, Silliker, Inc.
Mary L. Tortorello, FDA
Sudsai Trevanich, Kasetsart University
Erdal U. Tuncan, ConAgra Foods Inc.
Mika J. Tuomola, Raisio Diagnostics
Marcie Van Wart, MATRIX MicroScience
Jeffrey Varcoe, The Schwan Food Company
Stephen Varkey, DuPont
Purnendu C. Vasavada, Univ of Wisconsin-River Falls
David J. Velasquez, 3M
Thomas R. Weschler, Strategic Consulting, Inc.
Irene Wesley, USDA-ARS-Nat’l Animal Disease Ctr.
George E. Wilson, BD Diagnostics
Joon W. Wong, Keystone Foods LLC
Charles Young, JHU/APL
Guodong Zhang, University of Georgia
Guopeng Zhang, The University of British Columbia
Cynthia D. Zook, 3M Microbiology
How to Join
Involvement in committees and professional development
groups (PDGs) offers Members the opportunity to share a wealth of knowledge and
expertise. Members of committees and PDGs are the architects of the Association
structure. They plan, develop and institute many of the Association's projects,
including workshops, publications and educational sessions. Technical challenges
facing the food safety industry are discussed, examined and debated. Members may
volunteer to serve on any number of committees or PDGs that plan and implement
activities to meet the Association's mission.
Membership on a PDG is voluntary (not by
appointment) and may vary from year to year. Requests for membership on a PDG
should be directed to the chairperson.
Upcoming Meetings
August 3, 2008
Hyatt Regency Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
In conjunction with IAFP 2008
Webex Presentation on ISO 17025 Accreditation
presented to the PDG on 3/12/08 by Roger Brauninger, American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA)
Minutes from Teleconference Meetings
September 25, 2007
May 10, 2007
January 10, 2007
November 7, 2006
June 2, 2006
April 27, 2006
March 6, 2006
November 1, 2005
Minutes from Annual Meeting
Committee Minutes
IAFP 2007– July 8, 2007
Held at Disney's Contemporary Resort
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Members Present: Patricia Rule, Pamela Wilger, Ruth Eden, Mary Lou Tortorello, Bassam Annous, Patrice Arbault, Reginald Bennett, Michael Brodsky, Daniel Brown, Jinru Chen, Rocelle Clavero, Sally Foong- Cunningham, Gary Gensler, Jeff Kornacki, Ann Marie McNamara, Molly Mills, Yvonne Salfinger, George Wilson, Nandini Natrajan, Omar Oyarzabal, Vanessa Cranford, Phil Coombs, P.C. Vasavada, Michael Scott, Leslie Thompson and Erdal Tuncan.
New Members Present: Yvonne Chan, Nancy Maragioglio, Douglas Cosby, Peter Olsen, Jingkun LI, Bruce Bradley, Alessandra Chiareli, Robert Brooks, Charles Young, Sam Sirivicha, Richard Christianson, Brooke Houston, Marcie VanWart, Wendy Maduff, Joshua Gurtler, Thierry Sofia, Y. Jennifer Lee and Xiangwu Nou.
Visitors Present: Larry Beuchat and Jinru Chen.
Board and Staff Present: Stan Bailey and Tamara Ford.
Meeting Called to Order: 9:00 a.m.
Recording Secretaries of Minutes: Pamela Wilger,
Nandini Natrajan, Vanessa Cranford and Pat Rule.
Agenda
• Reading of the Antitrust Guidelines.
• Introduction of the new Vice Chairperson and the new Chair of the Discussion Topics/Education series.
• Comments from Stan Bailey.
• Introductions from the attendees.
• Summary of the Wet Workshop held the previous two days.
• Subcommittee updates:
• Sample Prep Working Group: M.L. Tortorello.
• Campy Workshop May 2007 at the University of Auburn: Omar Oyarzabal.
• Web-based discussion group.
• Symposium/Workshop ideas for 2008.
• Ideas for topics for the discussion/education teleconferences.
• Any other old business.
• Any new business.
• Determine next year's calendar for teleconferences.
Vice Chair Nominees: We had two members voice their interest in this position. Since only one can be the Vice Chair, the other one will Chair the Education Series/Hot Topics. We plan to work as a team though throughout the year. Officially, Vanessa Cranford from Walt Disney World is the Vice Chair for 2007–2009 and Nandini Natrajan from Keystone Foods is the Chair of the Education Series/Hot Topics.
Wet Lab Workshop: Pamela Wilger. Overall it went very well. There was plenty of time for one-on-one working with the vendors and real cultures. We had 9 outside attendees, 4 Central Florida University participants, and 9 vendors. It was a lot of work to put on and together. Vanessa Cranford was the local representative, Veronica Maxwell coordinated the University of Central Florida Lab, Pat Rule and Pamela Wilger worked behind the scenes to make sure everything went smoothly. The only complaint from the participants we heard was the bus ride was too long (90 minutes, due to construction and traffic). It was requested to try to make the workshop either one day or a day and a half in the future. Ann Marie McNamara offered the Silliker Lab in Columbus for next year’s IAFP for any wet lab workshops.
Sample Prep Working Group: Mary Lou Tortorello. This was the first face-to-face meeting. There were 19 people in attendance. Lee-Ann Jaykus is the Co- Organizer with Lou Tortorello. The meeting began with 3 presentations. The meeting was all day with a lot of discussion throughout. There is a need for standardizing sample preparations for quantitative and non-enrichment based analysis. Sampling size and pooling/compositing were discussed but decided to put these topics on hold until a statistician could be present. AOAC documents were used as guides for identifying the commodities. The afternoon consisted of a practical exercise where the group slit into two different groups: Produce and Meat/Poultry. The plan is to write a concept/white paper and publish in FPT or JFP . The next step is to hold an organizational meeting to identify the key experts on each commodity to develop procedures. Please make recommendations to Lou or Lee-Ann. The ultimate goal is to have an electronic Sampling Compendium.
Campylobacter Workshop: Omar Oyarzabal. There were 18 in attendance. Did not go as well as had hoped, but it was the first one. There were excellent speakers from other countries such as Canada, UK, and South Africa . The workshop needs to expand to 3–4 days from 2.5 days. Would like to add more automation, but would need larger space and 3–4 vendors to supply the automation. It focused on how to isolate Campy from poultry samples. It was extremely hands on. It was questioned if fingerprinting is valuable to include in the future. The PDG said yes, it is very relevant and we need to have sub speciation. Encouraged to plan another one in the future.
Web-based Discussion Group: Facilitated by Julian Cox (not present). It was agreed that this tool could be very valuable to us, so we will continue as a PDG to try to use it. The problem is no one is adding items or the discussion dies after a few days. Everyone needs to start a topic in it every so often to keep people thinking about it and getting accustomed to using it until it becomes second nature. We will also post the PDG activities on it, including the minutes for the last two years. If you are new or have not signed up for this tool, let Julian know you are interested.
2008 IAFP Applied Methods Program Proposals:
1. The Globalization of Acceptance Criteria for Microbiological Methods: Separating the Science from the Politics organized by Ruth Eden and Michael Brodsky. The PDG felt it needed a Latin American viewpoint also. Alessandra Chiareli will work with Ruth to name the speaker. Ruth will attend the Program Committee meeting Wednesday morning to defend this idea.
2. Sampling and Sample Prep: Unglamorous but Very Necessary organized by Mary Lou Tortorello and Phil Coombs. This is a follow up to the Enrichment Media and Sample Prep Symposium from the Baltimore meeting a few years ago. A roundtable and workshop will be good formats for future years based on follow up from the working group. We should look into the format of technical session and see if this would be better for this topic in the future. Will submit as is written. Lou will attend the Program Committee meeting Wednesday morning to defend this idea.
3. Agreed to submit a joint symposium idea on Testing for Chemical Contaminants in Foods with the Chemical and Food Allergen PDG. T.J. Fu, Pamela Wilger, Patrice Arbault and Peter Olsen helped organize it.
4. Discussed if our PDG should submit a workshop idea this year. Based on the Beverage PDG’s plan to submit a wet workshop on molds, we have chosen to resubmit the workshop from this year. Ideas for topics for the discussion/education teleconferences:
• Complete the Listeria topic started in March on ID Confirmation and Enumeration.
• E. coli O157:H7 including all other EHEC.
• Sampling Plans (ICMSF) what is Class II or III.
• Turning a lab from paper to electronic. Getting into
the ISO atmosphere.
• Identification techniques.
• Validation of methods.
Old Business: None due to lack of time.
Recommendations to the Executive Board:
1. Continued support for yearly teleconference and Web-based presentations to be determined.
2. A one-day meeting room on Saturday at the 2008 IAFP Annual Meeting for purpose of the Sample Prep Working Group meeting to include lunch and refreshments, if possible.
3. Approve Vanessa Cranford as the Vice Chair for 2007–2009.
Next Meeting Date: August 3, 2008 with quarterly conference calls during the year: early November, January, March and May.
Meeting Adjourned: 11:05 a.m.
Chairperson: Pamela Wilger.
Board
Response to Recommendations
1. Continued support for yearly teleconference and web-based presentations to be determined.
Board response: Agree.
2. A one-day meeting room on Saturday at the 2008 IAFP Annual Meeting for purpose of the Sample Prep Working Group meeting to include lunch and refreshments, if possible.
Board response: Agree.
3. Approve Vanessa Cranford as the Vice Chair for 2007–2009.
Board response: Agree.
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