Minutes of the NC 1025 Mycotoxins: Biosecurity and Food Safety

May 22, 2006
Concourse Hotel
Madison, WI

Representative Participants

AA	Beverly Durgan
ARS	David Kendra
IN	Charles Woloshuk
IL	Wanda Haschek-Hock
IA	Patricia Murphy, Suzanne Hendrich
MI	Frances Trail
ND	Charlene Wolf-Hall
PA	Gretchen Kuldau
TX	Won-Bo Shim (Web Cam)

Representatives not present from:

Kansas
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebraska
Tennessee
Wisconsin

Other Participants

Steve Moreland, BFI Inc.
Tanasa Osborn, Illinois
James Sasanya, North Dakota
Stella Sasanya, North Dakota
Mike Tumbleson, Illinois

II. Introduction

8:25 AM. Meeting was called to order by Chair, Pat Murphy. The meeting agenda was discussed, and the minutes from last year’s NC129 meeting were accepted without any additional comments.

Bev Durgan, the NC1025 administrator made her welcome statement. She also informed the group of the up-coming deadlines including the Termination Report for the NC129 project and the 2006 Annual Report for NC1025. Gretchen Kuldau was recognized and thanked for putting together a NC1025 Impact Statement with very short notice.

III. Station Reports

The station reports began at 8:45 AM with presentations from Gretchen Kuldau for Pennsylvania, Charlene Wolf-Hall and James Sasanya (graduate student) for North Dakota, Frances Trail for Michigan, David Kendra for ARS-NCAUR, Suzanne Hendrich for Iowa, Wanda Haschek-Hock for Illinois, and Charles Woloshuk for Indiana.

IV. Business Meeting

The Chair, Pat Murphy, brought the business meeting to order at 1 PM.

Some time was taken to discuss the reports that are due in the upcoming months. Pat Murphy agreed to organize the Termination Report for NC129. Gretchen Kuldau will organize the 2006 Annual Report.
The meeting continued with the election of a new Secretary (Charlene Wolf-Hall), and the sites for future meetings were discussed. Next year’s meeting (2007) will be in Pennsylvania, organized by the new Chair, Gretchen Kuldau. The new vice-chair, Charles Woloshuk, will organize the 2008 meeting.
The remainder of the business meeting was spent discussing the NC1025 milestones.

Frances Trail and Pat Murphy agreed to organize a list of potential topics and speakers for symposium at the annual meeting of the Midwest AOAC.
Ideas were discussed for writing a grant proposal that would incorporate the multiple disciplines and interests represented within the committee.
The committee agreed that to keep the website at Purdue University.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:30 PM.