• Call meeting to order
• Welcome
  • Welcome everyone to the meeting
  • Review agenda
  • Ask for any modifications to the agenda
• Old Business
  • Review anti-trust guidelines
  • All persons in attendance at the commencement of the meeting introduced themselves and their affiliation.
  • Review previous year’s meeting minutes
  • Review Board responses to our recommendations
    • Review mission statement
  • Review previous year’s session proposals
  • Review current year’s sessions
• New Business
  • Survey
  • Submit nominations of worthy candidates for next year’s awards
  • Nominations for Vice-Chair
  • Symposia submissions (due date)
    • Engage students
    • Encourage new professionals
    • Outside speakers (non-IAFP members)
    • International speakers
    • Of interest to industry (60% of IAFP membership) – applied topics
  • Review symposia formats
  • Symposia topics
    • Past proposals
    • What’s new?
    • Hot topics
    • Webinars
  • Collaboration with other PDGs
  • Elections update
• Recommendations to the Board
• Presentation, Dr. Ryan Newkirk, FDA Office of Food Defense
• Closing thoughts
  • Next year’s IAFP Annual Meeting date and location
    • IAFP 2018
    • July 8 - July 11
    • Salt Palace Convention Center
    • Salt Lake City, Utah