Quality Technical Committee

Officers

Mission Statement

Objectives

Typical Committee Duties

• Work in conjunction with other committees and subcommittees to collect state-of-the-art information on methods for the Quality Manual series, and on other issues relating to quality.
• Stay current on technology by attending trade shows and by maintaining relationships with vendors/suppliers.
• Communicate this information at the annual meeting, at subcommittee meetings and on an as needed basis throughout the year.

Areas of Interest

• Promotes innovative technologies and methods
• Assessing quality of raw materials, packaging, closures, etc.
• Improving the quality and production of beverages
• Publish and maintain the Quality Manual series including, our current methods for measuring the quality of beverage products, ingredients, packages, closures, and other aspects relating to the production and distribution of beverage products
• The second edition of ISBT Carbon Dioxide Guidelines and Analytical Procedure Bibliography was completed in March 2001. Copies of this publication are available for purchase through the ISBT office
• The Technical Presentations Guidelines Bulletin was completed in April of 2001. Copies of this bulletin are available from the ISBT office

2008 Quality Technical Committee Forum

Chair: Manus Mitchell
1st Vice Chair: Bob Layton
2nd Vice Chair: Cindy Palmer

General Assembly Presentation

• Selective Analysis of Dissolved Carbon Dioxide by Gerhard Murer, Anton Paar Gmbh.

Presentations

• ACB Subcommittee Update - Joe Shebuski (Cargill).
• Beverage Gases Subcommittee Update - Jeff Prophet (The Coca-Cola Company)
• Vendor Quality Assurance Subcommittee Update - Cindy Palmer (PepsiCo)
• Authenticity of Juices - Dana Krueger (Krueger Labs)
• Comparison of Food Safety Standards - Ernie McCullough, (ASI/SAI Global)
• Panel Discussion on Food Safety - Joe Shebuski (Cargill), Ernie McCullough (ASI/SAI Global), Dana Krueger (Krueger Labs), Mike Redmond (ABA), Sharon Purvis (Cargill)

Minutes

2007 Quality Technical Committee Forum

Chair: Sherri Murray, CCNA
1st Vice Chair: Manus Mitchell, PepsiCo, Intl.
2nd Vice Chair: Robert Layton, CS Americas

Subcommittee Reports

• Beverage Gasses - Jeff Prophet
• ACB's - Kathy Lawlor, Joe Shebuski, Debbie Foti and Pat Blue
• Audit - Kelly Fowler and Lito Castelo

Presentations

• "Selective Analysis of Dissolved Carbon Dioxide" - Gerhard Murer, Anton-Paar and Sharon Cronin, PepsiCo Int.
• "Sensory Best Practices" - Tammy Rossochaci, Cadbury Schweppes

Panel Discussion

2006 Presentations sponsored in General Assembly

How the quality community contributes to brand value - addresses some of the ways in which the Quality functions can positively impact brand management.

"Beverage Gas Subcommittee Activity Review" by Jeff Prophet, Coca-Cola North America

Reviewed current status of the Beverage Gas Subcommittee.

"Hard-to-Open Complaint Reduction" (Co-sponsored with Bottle & Closure Committee) by A. Mollenkamp & Jerry Volkman, Pepsico Beverages & Foods

Case study on how a project team significantly reduced hard-to-open consumer complaints hot filled packages without an increase in leaking packages.

"Acidophilic Thermophillic Bacteria" (Co-sponsored with Non-Traditional Beverages) by Kathy Lawlor, PepsiCo & Joe Shebuski, Cargill

Reviewed current status of the ACB Subcommittee. Attendees are encouraged to get involved.

2005 Presentations sponsored in General Assembly

An effective Quality System is composed of several key elements acting in unison to ensure the delivery of high quality products and services to customers.

"Quality System Panel Discussion"

Professionals from across the industry provided insight on the types of Quality Systems each of their companies are implementing.  The success of their Quality System implementations and the opportunities to improve upon during their journey.

"Improving Your Plants and Suppliers Food Safety Programs" by Rena Pierami, Silliker, Inc

This program discussed the fundamental aspects of second and third party auditing programs.

2005 Presentations presented in Technical Committee Forum

"Brand Harmony" by David Middleton, Excel Partnerships

How the quality community contributes to brand value - addresses some of the ways in which the Quality functions can positively impact brand management.

"Hard-to-Open Complaint Reduction" by Ann Mollencamp & Jerry Volkman
Pepsico Beverages & Foods

Case study on how a project team significantly reduced hard-to-open consumer complaints of hot filled packages without an increase in leaking packages.

"Continuous Improvement Using a LIMS" by Scott Dozier, Computer Control
+ Integration (CC+I)

Explore key benefits of a Lab Information Management System (LIMS) for beverage labs, including SPC tools, electronic traceability, reduced training costs for lab technicians, alarms for out of spec product, and the benefit of a complete management information system.

"Acidophilic Thermophillic Bacteria" by Kathy Lawlor, PepsiCo and
Larry Hobbs,Cargill larry_hobbs@cargill.com

Review the sources of these organisms, their unique growth characteristics, spoilage attributes, detection methods, potential control strategies. Some thoughts will be presented on inclusion of Alicyclobacillus sp. in raw material specifications.

"Sampling Carbon Dioxide, Why all of the Fuss?" by Siegfried Mueller,
ANASCI Tech smueller@anascitech.org

Discuss overcoming the physical and chemical properties of carbon dioxide that make it difficult to analyze, selecting materials of construction that will preserve your sample integrity and sampling physics for special contaminants of interest.

Bevtech'04 Best Paper Award