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Food Defense: Protecting the Food Supply From Intentional Harm

Food Defense: Protecting the Food Supply From Intentional Harm. Why Create a Food Defense Plan?. How could you create havoc in the food supply system?. Do you have workers who may have a grudge? Think like an individual that would like to harm your operation. Welcome and Introductions.

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Food Defense: Protecting the Food Supply From Intentional Harm

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  1. Food Defense: Protecting the Food Supply From Intentional Harm

  2. Why Create a Food Defense Plan?

  3. How could you create havoc in the food supply system? • Do you have workers who may have a grudge? • Think like an individual that would like to harm your operation.

  4. Welcome and Introductions

  5. What you will learn today: • By the end of the training you will be able to tell neighbors why you and they need a food defense plan. • By the end of the day you will be able to write a food defense plan for your business and have a draft plan in hand. • By the end of the day you will be able to write a response plan for your business and have a draft plan in hand.

  6. Course Overview • Vulnerability Assessment • Countermeasure Development • Writing a Food Defense Plan • Developing a Response Plan

  7. US Food Supply • Safest in the world? • Recalls • Spinach • Tomatoes • Peanut butter • Melamine

  8. The U.S. government has declared the food and agriculture sector to be one of 17 critical national infrastructures vulnerable to intentional attack.

  9. Why Would Your Farm or Business Be a Target? • Missouri ranks 2nd in the nation for number of farms • Missouri ranks 6th in number of food processors • Missouri ranks 14th in restaurant sales

  10. What Type of Harm Could Occur? • Intentional delivery of a harmful biological or chemical agent to the food supply system could cause: • Physical harm (illness or mortality) • Economic disruption • Direct • Indirect • International • Political unrest • Psychological harm –loss of confidence in food supply

  11. Case Study: Melamine • Contaminated Wheat Gluten→ pet food • Cats and dogs fall ill and some die • Massive recall of pet food • Contamination was intentional • Waste pet food fed to hogs in 7 states • 56,000 hogs quarantined

  12. Consumer Confidence in Food Defense Systems After National Food Recalls Stinson et al., 2008

  13. Who Do Consumers Believe is Responsible for Food Defense? Stinson et al., 2008

  14. Who do Consumers Believe is Responsible for Paying for Food Defense

  15. Percent of Consumers Believing a Product Likely to be Intentionally Contaminated Stinson et al., 2008

  16. So, How do we Protect the Food Supply? Develop a Food Defense Plan • Determine Vulnerability • Develop Countermeasures • Write a Defense Plan • Write a Response Plan

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