HACCP Utilization and Food Safety Systems Professional Development Group
Mission Statement: To serve as an international knowledge sharing forum to promote the successful development and implementation of HACCP and food safety systems.
Meeting Information
Virtual: TBD
In Person: IAFP 2025
July 27, 2025, Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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.
IAFP Members can manage their PDG involvement by logging in to the IAFP Web site. At the Member Dashboard, click “Edit Profile.” Your profile has two tabs: Contact Info and Professional Info. Select the Professional Info tab and update the PDGs you would like to participate in. We highly recommend that you contact the PDG chairperson for each group to let them know you have joined their PDG.
Non-members can contact Dina Siedenburg, dsiedenburg@foodprotection.org, for more information.
1. Continue to motivate students to engage in HACCP PDG via HACCP PDG Student awards.
Board Response: Board Response: The Board encourages all PDGs to involve and support students.
2023 Board Response to Recommendations
Appoint Dr. Lone Jespersen as the new Vice-Chair of the PDG.
Board Response: Approved.
Introduce HACCP Utilization and Food Safety Systems PDG Student Award for IAFP 2024.
Board Response: Approved.
2022 Board Response to Recommendations
Request recording of PDG meeting.
Board Response: It is suggested to self-record your meeting. If desired, you could post it within IAFP Connect for your Members to listen to.
Scheduling HACCP PDG meeting such that it doesn’t conflict with other PDGs (ex: Sanitation, Auditing) that also have common audience members or that deal with similar topics of concern.
Board Response: This will be taken into consideration when scheduling PDG meetings at IAFP 2023.
2021 Board Response to Recommendations
1. Recommend approval of Dr. Bala Kottapalli as Vice Chair for the HACCP PDG.
Board Response: Agree.
2020 Board Response to Recommendations
None
2019 Board Response to Recommendations
Continue to have the HACCP PDG and Food Safety Culture PDG meetings at different times
Board Response: Agree.
Approve Fatemeh Ataei as Vice Chair.
Board Response: Agree.
2018 Board Response to Recommendations
Consider a better system for cross-communication between
PDGs that are closely related (like Food Safety Culture
and HACCP Food Safety Systems). Not all PDG work is for
symposium development, so just coordinating symposium
ideas on a spreadsheet is only the first part of this. Is there
a way to schedule meetings to allow for some overlap time that is shared between PDGs before they break out into their own separate meetings? Or else don’t schedule them
at the same time.
Board Response: Agree. As per a request from the Food Safety Culture PDG, these two PDG meetings will be scheduled at separate times.
2017 Board Response to Recommendations
Recommend that Deann Akins-Lewenthal be approved as Vice Chair of the PDG.
Board Response: Agree.
Recommend that Deann Akins-Lewenthal be approved as Vice Chair of the PDG.
Board Response: IAFP does not currently have a HACCP Guidance document.
2016 Board Response to Recommendations
Approve Loralyn Ledenbach as Vice Chair for 2016-2017. (shortened term due to the step down of Lisa Moody as Vice Chair).
