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Writing Your Own Food Defense Plan

Step three in developing a food defense plan. Writing Your Own Food Defense Plan. Facilities Currently Required to Participate in Food Defense. All vendors providing processed foods to USDA federal feeding programs must be in compliance with the Food Defense System.

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Writing Your Own Food Defense Plan

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  1. Step three in developing a food defense plan Writing Your Own Food Defense Plan

  2. Facilities Currently Required to Participate in Food Defense • All vendors providing processed foods to USDA federal feeding programs must be in compliance with the Food Defense System.

  3. What do I Need to Write a Food Defense Plan? • Vulnerability assessment • Map of facility • Operational documents • HACCP plan • SOP or GMP • BQA or PQA plans

  4. Who Will Be Responsible? • Designate a food defense coordinator to develop, implement and maintain the Food Defense Plan Courtesy of Food Technology magazine, from "Defending the Food Supply," August 2005, Vol. 59, No.8.  Food Technology is a publication of the Institute of Food Technologists, www.ift.org.

  5. Write the plan • Describe each vulnerability specifically. • Decide if the vulnerability is practical to address. • Determine a countermeasure.

  6. Write the plan (continued) • Decide who will be responsible to implement the countermeasure. • Choose a reasonable timeline for implementation. • Initial and date plan when implementation of countermeasure is completed.

  7. Managing the plan • Review and revise the plan to accommodate new and newly elevated risks • Train the employees regarding their effort in: • Prevention • Detection • Response

  8. Managingthe plan (continued) • Test the countermeasures after implementation • Make unannounced entrances at various checkpoints • Check locks in vulnerable areas • Perform a mock recall • Test inventory procedures

  9. Managingthe plan (continued) • Re-evaluate the plan annually or as products, processes or facilities change. • Copies of the plan should be kept on-site and off-site.

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