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<< back to the 2002 archive listing << Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation Commentary From The Executive Director It continues to be an exciting time in IAFP history In this issue of Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation, we report on IAFP 2002 — the 89th Annual Meeting that was held last July. The report begins on page 752 and includes many pictures, a summary of events and sessions, minutes of committee meetings and the Annual Business Meeting, and pictures of our award presentations. If you attended IAFP 2002, this report will help bring back your memories of the San Diego meeting; and if you were unable to be with us, we hope you enjoy reviewing the highlights of IAFP 2002! We want to recognize the many sponsors of IAFP 2002. On page 782, a list of our Annual Meeting sponsors is shown. On the following page, our special contributors are shown. These companies have certainly committed themselves to IAFP and our mission of providing a forum to exchange information on protecting the food supply. Without the help of our sponsors and special contributors, we would not be able to enjoy the many experiences at IAFP 2002 as fully as we did. Thank you and we look forward to additional years of your support! A new feature of our Annual Meeting report is an entire section of session summaries from IAFP 2002. Turn to page 768 for a summary from most every session. These were written by students from the IAFP Student Professional Development Group. We deeply appreciate the dedication of these students and especially want to recognize Manan Sharma and Michelle Danyluk. Manan and Michelle coordinated the submission, collation and submission of the summaries. You have all done a great job and I am positive that many IAFP Members will benefit from your work! There are so many people that come together to make the IAFP Annual Meeting THE MEETING for food safety that it is hard to thank everyone. Two groups that we couldn’t have had such a successful meeting with out their help are the Program Committee and the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC). Frank Yiannas (Program Committee Chair), Margaret Burton (LAC Chair), and Jennylynd James (LAC Chair) were wonderful to work with over the past year! They were able to inject enthusiasm into their Committees and have a lot of fun while accomplishing their duties. Thanks to each of you and to your Committee Members. Another group which we recognize for their extreme contributions are the session
organizers, convenors and presenters. So many people, so much coordination of
effort and timing to bring everyone together just at the right times so that
the program all flows seamlessly. Anyone who had a part in this year’s
program is to be recognized and thanked for his or her help All in all, this was the biggest, most diverse program; the largest attended Annual Meeting on record. Our Exhibit Hall was full and had great traffic, our sessions were well attended, the poster presentations were very popular and we had more than 1,400 attendees this year in San Diego. Over 600 attended the Monday Night Social at the San Diego Zoo — our previous record for a Monday Night Social was just more than 350! Be sure to take time to review the Annual Meeting recap. We had fun putting
it together and Speaking of history, we are embarking upon a historic trail by changing the name of Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation. With the January 2003 issue, DFES becomes Food Protection Trends. See page 822 for a preview of the new cover design. If you want additional details about this name change, please review my September column. We look forward to this new endeavor as this Journal evolves to Food Protection Trends! It continues to be an exciting time in IAFP history. Be sure to visit with your colleagues about the new name for DFES so that everyone knows about the new name and recognizes it as “News and Science from the Inter-national Association for Food Protection.” |