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Food Industry Stewardship
Summit/ August 1-2, 2007 The food production, processing and distribution industry has assumed a major role in advancing stewardship. Several new, large-scale initiatives are underway. Goals for the meeting were simple:
Drivers for organizing the gathering included opportunities to:
Organized by the IPM Institute of North America. Co-sponsored by the US EPA Environmental Stewardship Branch, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Tom Brennan, Chief; and the National Science Foundation Center for IPM, Ron Stinner, director. Invitees included industry and public agency leaders pursuing IPM and sustainable agriculture to improve impacts on health and environment.
Location: AGENDA AND LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS August 1 7:30
Registration, coffee 8:00
Welcome from EPA Offices, Tom
Brennan, Chief, Stewardship Branch US EPA OPP BPPD 8:20
Introductions, agenda and materials review 8:50 Overview of industry stewardship initiatives and issues, Tom Green, President, IPM Institute PDF (12 pp, 3.23MB) 9:00
Snapshots of current programs from field production to processing,
distribution and retail: Origins, goals, status, near-term plans
1. SYSCO Sustainable Agriculture, Craig
Watson, Vice President of Quality Assurance and Agricultural
Sustainability, SYSCO
2. Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Program, David
Pendlington, Sustainable Agriculture Program Coordinator PDF (18 pp, 316 KB) 10:00
Break 3.
Developments in Facility Pest Management, Tom
Green 4.
National Food Products Association/Grocery Manufacturers Association.
Paul Noe, Vice
President, Regulatory Affairs 5.
Sustainability from a Consumer Perspective, Kate
Peringer, Marketing Communications Manager, Hartman Group 6.
Buy/by IPM Campaign. What’s
it all about? Sue
Ratcliffe, University of Illinois 7.
IPM Implementation through NRCS Incentives, Task Force Update on, Mike
Fitzner, Director, Plant Systems, USDA CSREES 11:30 Lunch 12:30
Open discussion - see comments below
3:30
Next steps
- see action items and contacts below 4:00
Adjourn
7:30
Registration, coffee, EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center 8:00
Welcome & Introductions
NSF Center for IPM 8:20
Overview of Aug 1 Food Industry/Public Agency Summit: Tom
Green, President, IPM Institute
Reporting Out: Opportunities and Challenges
Public Agency Perspective – Tom
Brennan, EPA
Buy-Side Perspective – David
Pendlington,
Sustainable Agriculture Program Coordinator, Unilever
Processor Perspective - Steve
Balling, Director, Agricultural Services, Del Monte
Sustainability from a Consumer Perspective– Kate
Peringer, Hartman Group 9:30
Standards - Kathleen
Staley, Senior Advisor for Quality Management, USDA Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP) & Good Handling Practices (GHP) 9:45
Role of Federal Agency Standards Executives - Mary
McKiel, Standards Executive, US EPA 10:00
Break 10:20
Panel Presentation & Discussion: Performance Measurement and
Reporting
IPM Elements and Guidelines – Curt
Petzoldt, Assistant Director, New York State IPM Program PDF
(18 pp, 2.34 MB)
SYSCO Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Reporting Elements – Shane Sampels, Director, Quality Assurance, SYSCO
National IPM Evaluation Group – Unified Reporting for
Outputs/Outcomes, Bill Hoffman, National Program Leader, Ag Homeland Security, USDA
CSREES 11:50
Lunch (provided) 1:00
Panel Presentation & Discussion: Perspectives from the Food
Chain
Moderator: Steve Muench,
United Soybean Board Lynoaken
Farm and Richard Yudin, Fyffes Perspective
on EurepGAP and buyer-requested programs, Darrel
Oakes, National
Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Jean-Marie
Peltier, President Technological
Solutions, Jon Forbis, Jennifer
Shaw, Syngenta Crop Protection
PDF
(14 pp, 1.61 MB) 2:15
Break 2:30
Open Discussion and Questions 4:00
Building Communication Bridges and Partnerships - What next? DISCUSSION NOTES Collaboration on Standards
Consumer Communications
Public Agency Roles
Priorities:
ACTION
STEPS AND CONTACTS 2. A committee will be formed to pursue development of baseline, harmonized standards for sustainable agriculture and food processing. EPA supports and wants to assist industry's lead role in the development of standards. Contact Mike Mendelsohn, senior regulatory specialist, Environmental Stewardship Branch, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, US EPA.. 3. Increase the visibility of IPM Elements and Guidelines for use in IPM education and assessment tools for producers and programs; increase the number of these documents. Tom Green, IPM Institute and Carrie Koplinka Loehr, Northeastern IPM Center. 4. Reactivate the Food Processing Sector of the EPA Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program, schedule follow up conference call to identify additional potential members and develop a sector strategy for the coming year. Contact Frank Ellis, entomologist, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, US EPA. 5. Pursue partners and develop Buy IPM/By IPM program as a mechanism to increase consumer and taxpayer awareness and appreciation for IPM, and to recognize top IPM performers in the food production and other sectors. Contact Sue Ratcliffe, co-director, North Central IPM Center.
RELATED PROJECTS
AND PROGRAMS Keystone Center - The Center has launched an effort to identify practices for increasing production agriculture’s sustainability with a focus on results. The goal is to give growers diverse, economically viable production choices to employ to achieve the broadest possible adoption. Contact Sara Alexander, Keystone Center. Link. Sustainable Food Lab. The mission of the Sustainable Food Lab is to accelerate improvement in mainstream food and agriculture systems so we can sustain a high quality life on earth. Link. Sustainable Products Initiative - Led by the non-profit National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, this effort focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of products, particularly where life cycle impacts are greater than production process impacts. SYSCO Sustainable/IPM Initiative - This effort, begun in 2003 and developed jointly with suppliers, aims to improve and document impacts on health and environment. More than 79 processed fruit and vegetable suppliers and 512,000 acres are participating in supplier sustainable ag program development, independent third-party audits of processing and production operations, and annual performance indicators reporting. An annual program conference Link. USDA IPM Centers - Four regional IPM Centers have been created to strengthen USDA's connection with production agriculture, research and extension programs, and agricultural stakeholders throughout the US. USDA and EPA recognize the need for a pest management information network that can quickly respond to information needs of the public and private sectors. Regional IPM Centers help USDA and its partner institutions identify, prioritize and coordinate a national pest management research, extension, and education program implemented on a regional basis. Link. USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education program (SARE) - funds projects and conducts outreach designed to improve agricultural systems. SARE provides funding opportunities annually through four regions in a competitive process, and maintains an on-line database of funded projects. SARE serves as an information clearinghouse for handbooks, free bulletins and other publications. Link. US EPA Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program - EPA established PESP in 1994 as a voluntary partnership program to reduce pesticide risk. By joining PESP, organizations pledge that environmental stewardship is an integral part of pest management and commit to working toward innovative practices that reduce risk to human health and the environment. Link. US EPA Strategic Ag
Initiative - SAI's primary goal is to assist in Food Quality Protection Act
implementation through partnerships with regional pesticide users, educators, researchers and others. SAI provides grant funding to state and non-profit organizations for projects which emphasize the evaluation and implementation of reduced risk strategies.
Link. RELATED REFERENCES Pirog, R. and A. Larson. 2007. Consumer Perceptions of the safety, health, and environmental impact of various scales and geographic origin of food supply chains. Leopold Center, Iowa State University. PDF. (45 pp, 857 KB) |
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