Awareness Towards Food Defeense

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FDAs Food Defense Program

PA EDEN Food Protection ConferenceOctober 28, 2009

LeeAnne Jackson, Ph.D.Health Science Policy AdvisorFood Defense Oversight Team

Office of Food Defense, Communication, and Emergency ResponseCenter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Food and Drug [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Raising Food DefenseAwareness


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FDAs ALERT Initiative

Intended to raise awareness of food defense Applies to all aspects of the farm-to-table

continuum

Identifies 5 key food defense points: Assure

Look

Employees

Report

Threat


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ALERT

See http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefense/Training/ALERT/default.htm

for more information
http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefense/Training/ALERT/default.htmhttp://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefense/Training/ALERT/default.htm


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ALERT materials are available in PDF and multiple

languages

Wallet Card: English, Chinese, French, Korean,Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

Brochure: English, Chinese, French, Korean,Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

Poster: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

FDAs ALERT Initiative


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AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH

WEB-BASED TRAINING NOW AVAILABLE AT

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefense/Training/ALERT/default.htm


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FOOD DEFENSE AWARENESS


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Employees FIRST

WHO:

Anyone who handles food, steps onto the

production floor while food is being processed oris involved in making a food product.


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Employees FIRST

Follow company fooddefense plan andprocedures.

Inspect your work area andsurroundings areas.

Recognize anything out ofthe ordinary. Secure all ingredients,

supplies and finishedproduct.

Tell management if younotice anything unusual orsuspicious.


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FIRST Employees Food DefenseAwareness Training

Training Kit for management to incorporate intocompanys food defense training program forfirst-line employees

12 minute DVD

Use images to re-enforce key message


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FIRST Educational Publications

Posters: English

Spanish


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FIRST Employees

The Employees FIRST ToolKit is free and available for

ordering at :

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefe

nse/Training/ucm135038.htm
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Coming Soon Winter 2009

FIRST Tool Kit is being translated intoadditional languages:

Chinese (Mandarin)

Korean

Vietnamese

JapaneseFrench


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Food Defense Tools


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CARVER + Shock Overview

Method of choice for food and agriculture vulnerabilityassessments

Breaks a food system into its smallest pieces (nodes) in

the farm to table continuum via a flow diagram Examines public health, economic, and psychological

consequences of an attack

Identifies nodes that are the most likely targets for

terrorist attack, by applying the analysis to each node Leads to the identification of countermeasures to reduce

the risk at those nodes


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CARVER + Shock

Considers seven factors that affect the desirability of atarget:

Criticality Public health and economic impacts toachieve the attackers intent

Accessibility Physical access to the target

Recuperability Ability of the system to recover fromthe attack

Vulnerability Ease of accomplishing the attack

Effect Amount of direct loss from an attack Recognizability Ease of identifying a target

Shock Psychological effects of an attack


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CARVER + Shock Software

Version 1 released June2007

Target audiences =manufacturers and processors

Identifies vulnerabilities within

your facility using the CARVER+ Shock Methodology

Based on company informationentered by the user

Housed on the users

computer, no 3rd

party accessto data

Customized results availableonly to the user

Download atwww.cfsan.fda.gov/fooddefense
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/fooddefensehttp://www.cfsan.fda.gov/fooddefense


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Version 2

Coming in Fall 2009

Extends to pre-harvest and retail

Increased usability Simpler, faster and easier to interpret

Focus on accessibility and vulnerability

Out of CARVER categories, industry can

influence/affect V and A the most


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Exercise In A Box

Food/Agriculture Event Response ActivitiesKits

Five scenarios for discussion-basedexercises that will be compiled into a toolkit

Distributed via electronic media.


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Exercise In A Box

The toolkit will consist of:

1 Seminar: 3-4 hrs; and discussion based onintroduction to emergency planning

1 Workshop: 3-4 hrs; discussionsencouraging participant interaction

3 Tabletop exercises: 6-7 hrs; scenario based

in-depth discussions by policy or decisionmaking personnel


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Preventative Measures


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Preventative Measures

Guidance documents Self Assessment Tools

Food Producers, Processors and Transporters

Dairy Farms, Bulk Milk Transport, Processors

Retail Food Stores and Food Service

Importers and Filers

Cosmetics Processors and Transporters


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Food Defense MitigationStrategies Database

Coming Fall 2009

Contains a range of preventative measures forindustry to consider

Searchable

Current version focuses on manufacturers,processors and distributors

Current version contains roughly 60 productionsteps (Nodes)


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Food Defense MitigationStrategies Database

Mitigations strategies are tiered

Tiers based on cost and complexity ofimplementing strategy

Mitigations compiled from: Guidance Documents

Open Literature

Industry Input

Additional nodes being developed including farmand retail/food service steps