Committee on Control of Foodborne Illness

Saturday, July 25, 2015: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
D129 (Oregon Convention Center)
Call to order and reading of IAFP Antitrust guidelines.

1. Any additions to the agenda?

2. Symposia and presentations involving CCFI members on July 25 - 28, 2015.

3. Suggestions for 2016 symposia:

4. Status of Subcommittee to review "Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness". Ewen

Todd on behalf of Marilyn Lee – final draft sent to members, completed and being sent

to publisher on August 1, 2015.

5. Status of Subcommittee working on the 1982 CDC Diseases Transmitted by Foods (Judy

and Ewen). Many parts still missing.

6. Revision of “Procedures to Investigate Arthropod-borne and Rodent-borne Illness”

manual: Board: Staff will provide an electronic version of the Procedures to Investigate

Arthropod- borne and Rodent-borne Illness manual. Additional discussion needs to take

place before making an electronic version of the HACCP manual as that book is not

approved for revision currently. Note: from Springer: Lifetimes sales: 3,814 print, 9

electronic 2014 sales: 1,505 print, 3 electronic 2015 sales through May: 102 print, 2

electronic. Lifetime downloads from our e-package: 681.

7. Marketing of the procedures manuals: Board: The current price structure for the

“Procedures to Investigate Foodborne Illness” is economical for a book of this

importance. IAFP will encourage the same, economical prices structure for the

“Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness” when it becomes available.

8. Task force with input from the Board and the Food Safety Education PDG for

developing a training program based on the procedures manuals. (Possible collaboration

with groups, e.g., International Food Protection Training Institute, NEHA. (mailing lists,

Springer sales, webinars).

9. Translation of the 6th edition of the foodborne illness procedures manual (Ewen and

Judy). Chinese (Xianqin Yang) Other languages?

10. Committee history - 100 years in 2014. History being edited for Food Protection Trends.

(Ewen).

11. CCFI Google groups (Kruti Ravaliya)

12. Interactive ebooks: we should consider interactive ebooks/iBook format for some of the

projects. (Pat Curtis)  Because of great expertise in IAFP in this area, we can add

multimedia components to some of our manuals.  Board: PDGs are encouraged to work

in this arena.

13. New business

14. Recommendations to the Board.

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