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Perfecto Santiago, USDA, USA

US-Russian Scientific Conference : “MEAT PRODUCTS SAFETY - FROM FARM TO TABLE” The V.M.Gorbatov All-Russian Meat Research Institute , Moscow , April 18-20 , 2006 г. Beef and Pork Biosecurity in the USA. Perfecto Santiago, USDA, USA. FSIS Food Defense Initiatives.

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Perfecto Santiago, USDA, USA

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  1. US-Russian Scientific Conference:“MEAT PRODUCTSSAFETY - FROM FARM TO TABLE”The V.M.Gorbatov All-Russian Meat Research Institute, Moscow, April 18-20, 2006 г. Beef and Pork Biosecurity in the USA Perfecto Santiago, USDA, USA

  2. FSIS Food Defense Initiatives Dr. Perfecto R. Santiago Deputy Assistant Administrator Office of Food Defense and Emergency Response Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) United States Department of Agriculture

  3. USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) • Mission: To ensure meat, poultry and egg products are safe, secure, wholesome and are accurately labeled. • National Infrastructure of 15 districts, 3 laboratories, headquarters staff, and approximately 12,000 total personnel (7,500 field) • Annual Budget: $950 million

  4. Office of Food Defense and Emergency Response • Created in August 2002 • Mission: Develop, maintain, and coordinate all FSIS activities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from large scale food emergencies or deliberate acts of terrorism affecting the meat, poultry and egg products. • Staff: 25 FT Specialists.

  5. Food Defense Goals • To prevent an attack or minimize its impact • To respond rapidly and efficiently • To recover quickly and restore consumer confidence in the food supply • To focus activities on greatest risks • Integrate food safety and food defense resources to the extent possible

  6. Food Defense Challenges • Food defense as a new and distinct dimension of food safety • Lack of specific statutory authority to mandate security measures • Food security education and training as a new discipline • Vulnerability of multiple nodes in the farm to table continuum to bioterrorism • Integration of surveillance systems of food safety regulatory agencies • Disposal of large quantities of contaminated products • Informing the intelligence community of food threat information

  7. Supplementary Authorities • Homeland Security Presidential Directives (12) • Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (PL-107-188, signed June 12, 2002) • Sec. 332 – Expansion of FSIS activities to include protection against bioterrorism.

  8. Relevant Homeland Security Presidential Directives • HSPD–3 – Homeland Security Advisory System • HSPD-5 – Management of Domestic Incidents • HSPD-7 – Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection. • HSPD-8 – National Preparedness • HSPD-9 – Defense of U.S. Agriculture and Food

  9. Food Defense Initiatives • Enhance Response Capabilities • Conduct Vulnerability Assessments and Deploy Countermeasures • Enhance International Security • Conduct Research and Enhance Laboratory Security and Coordination Activities • Conduct Simulation Exercises • Enhance Surveillance Activities • Expand Coordination with Government, Industry, and Public Partners • Develop and Conduct Food Security Guidance Outreach • Develop/Revise Procedures for Threat Levels • Conduct Ongoing Workforce Education and Training

  10. Enhance Response Capabilities • Establish the Emergency Management Committee (EMC) • Revise 6500.1 – Emergency Incident Response • Establish Incident Commander and responsibilities • Develop an Incident Action Plan • Include natural disasters as non-routine incidents • Establish a Situation Room for EMC activities • Establish documentation procedures (Non-Routine Incident Report) • Identify lessons learned after each EMC activation/exercise • Ensure delivery of essential functions in emergencies

  11. Enhance Response Capabilities • Developing a Directive on Decontamination and Disposal • Developing a list of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) • Developing State Food Safety and Security Contact Guide and an Integrated State Emergency Contact List for all District Offices

  12. Conduct Vulnerability Assessments and Deploy Countermeasures • Conduct/Update Vulnerability Assessments (VA) of domestic and imported Product using CARVER+Shock • 8 completed VA’s on domestic and imported foods • Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism • Validate completed V A’s • New VA • Identify new technologies as countermeasures for vulnerabilities

  13. CARVER • Considers seven factors that affect the attractiveness of a target: • Criticality–Public health and economic impacts to achieve the attacker’s intent • Accessibility– Physical access to the target • Recuperability– Ability of the system to recover from the attack • Vulnerability– Ease of accomplishing the attack • Effect – Amount of direct loss from an attack • Recognizability– Ease of identifying a target • Shock– Combined physical, public health, psychological, and economic effects of an attack

  14. Enhance International Security • Hire additional Import Surveillance Liaison Officers (ISLO’s) • Established a Memorandum of Understanding with Customs and Border Protection. • Conduct vulnerability assessment on illegal imports. • Link FSIS with International Trade Data System (ITDS) • Participate in the G8 Meeting of Experts

  15. Conduct Research and Enhance Laboratory Security and Coordination • Testing emergency response plans of three FSIS laboratories • Co-chairs (with FDA) the Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks • Signed an MOU with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Aberdeen Laboratories • OPHS -Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Division • Established a Biosecurity Level 3 Laboratory in Athens, GA. • Conducting research on a number of threat agents. • Planning workshops on VA with APEC countries

  16. Conduct Simulation Exercises • (6) State Exercises in 2006 in 6 Districts –Albany,NY., Raleigh,NC.(completed), Madison, WI.,Alameda, CA (completed), Chicago, Ill., Minneapolis, MN.) – • Incident Command System • Non Routine Incident Reporting

  17. Enhance Surveillance Activities • Enhanced Consumer Complaint Monitoring System • 24/7 operations • Linkage with States • Continue performing food defense verification activities and analyze findings. • Developing the Automated Non-Routine Incident Reporting System (NRIMS) • Developing Food and Agriculture Bio Surveillance Integration System (FABIS) and link to National Integrated Bio Surveillance System (NBIS) • Member of the USDA Intelligence Council • Enhancing coordination with regional, local intelligence community • Analyze food safety samples for threat agents as well.

  18. Expand Coordination with Government, Industry and Public Partners • Established an MOU with Customs and Border Protection • Developed a template for food emergency response through a cooperative agreement with National Association of State Departments of Agriculture • Coordinating with Association of Food and Drug Officials on food defense initiatives • Participating in the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) Initiative • Conducting joint exercises with state and local responders on ICS/NRIR systems.

  19. Develop Food Security Guidelines and Conduct Outreach Initiatives • Conducted Food Security Awareness Training • Developed Model Food Defense Plans (4) • Conducted workshops on Model Food Security Plans • “Food Security – Make it Your Business” • Puerto Rico Webcast – Dec. 9 • Developed Food Security Self-Assessment Checklist • CARVER + Shock Briefings of the Industry • Food Products Association • National Meat Association • United Egg Association • National Chicken Council • Farm Service Agency (FSA)

  20. Food Defense Guidelines • Food processors, transporters, distributors, consumers and FSIS employees • Available at: www.fsis.usda.gov

  21. Develop/Revise Procedures for Threat Levels • Updating Agency responses to different threat declaration levels • Revising FSIS Directives 5420.1 • 5420.1 (Rev. 2) – July 20, 2005 • Reduce number of food security verification procedures to focus surveillance activities on areas with the highest risks.

  22. Conduct Workforce Education and Training • Conducted Bio Security Awareness Training • Training of Veterinarians on Foreign Animal Diseases • Developing Advanced Food Defense Training on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Critical Infrastructure Protection • Developing Security Interactive Knowledge Exchange (SIKES) • Incident Command System Training – ICS 100, ICS 200

  23. Next Steps.. • To sustain the recognition of food defense as a distinct dimension of food safety. • To establish an integrated surveillance database framework that will fuse all existing systems of the agency and link it to a national surveillance database. • To enhance international coordination with partner countries in the protection of critical infrastructures esp. food and agriculture from intentional attacks. • To intensify efforts to control illegal imports

  24. Thank you.. • QUESTIONS? Contact Information: Dr. Perfecto R. Santiago (201) 205-0452 Perfecto.santiago@fsis.usda.gov

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