Defending the safety of our food supply through education
FPE is collaborative multi-institution public and private partnership within the DHS National Center for Food Protection and Defense. Resources are provided to enhance our nation's intellectual capacity to prepare for, protect, respond to and recover from incidences of intentional contamination of our food supply.
Topic(s): Risk Assessment.
This report examines a draft plan, prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, that identifies critical security issues for drinking water and wastewater and outlines related research and technical support needs. It also recommends increased attention to interagency coordination and encourages additional consideration of current restrictions on the dissemination of secure information.
Author: National Academies Press
Format: Online
URL: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10772.html
This paper focuses on the goals of agroterrorism, possible groups engaged in this type of terrorism, the consequences of such actions, features of an attack, how technology will change the threat of terrorism, what states are most at risk, and how agroterrorism might be deterred.
Author: Mark Wheelis, University of California, Davis
Format: Online
URL: http://www.fas.org/bwc/agr/agwhole.htm
This presentation outlines Foot and Mouth disease, other bioterrorist agents, and the consequences of such an attack. The presentation also examines the purpose of agroterrorism, animal and crop vulnerabilities, pathogens of concern, and the threat of agroterrorism.
Author: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.mipt.org/pdf/puttingcttoworkappendixk.pdf
This presentation defines agroterrorism, the probabilities & likelihood of agroterrorism incidents, costs associated with prevention, response and recovery, history of agroterrorism, and potential solutions.
Author: Purdue Extension
Format: Powerpoint presentation
URL: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/eden/educators/Edsagroterrorism.ppt
This document is intended for use by Purdue Extension educators to share with local law enforcement and community leaders. This paper looks at the possible costs associated with agroterrorism, addresses the history and possibility of an incident, and shares some recommendations for countering agroterrorism.
Author: Purdue Extension
Format: Online
URL: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/eden/disasters/agro/Agroterrorism.doc
Information pertaining to the disease, frequently asked questions and expert advice.
Author: Purdue Extension
Format: Online
URL: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/eden/disasters/agro/AI/index.html
The definition of avian influenza, its modes of transmission, infection with humans, symptoms and signs of the disease, food safety issues, and vaccinations and treatment options.
Author: Supercourse
Format: Powerpoint presentation
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec22721/index.htm
Offered as the beginning of an on-going discussion for educators considering biosecurity outreach opportunities. Areas covered include understanding extension's role in your state and region, key partnerships to be formed before an event, working with the media, and cataloging available resources.
Author: Purdue Extension
Format: Online
URL: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/eden/educators/biosecurity/index.html
Presents guidelines for the development of a biosecurity plan to protect livestock from disease.
Author: University of Nebraska
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1442/build/g1442.pdf
A training manual seized from Al Qaeda examines methods of agricultural terrorism; in addition, computer records found in Afghanistan suggest that the terror network's interest in bioweapons predated 9/11. This article, which was featured in the Center for Contemporary Conflict's Strategic Insights, discusses the vulnerabilities of the nation's food supply, remedies in progress to address these, and what else is needed to protect the country from agricultural terrorism.
Author: Barry S. Zellen
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/dec/zellenDec04.pdf
Fears about terrorism usually center on nuclear or biological weapons. But attackers could cause huge economic damage by spreading plant or animal diseases. This article explains how this threat is being confronted.
Author: Virginia Gewin
Format: Online
URL: http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v421/n6919/full/421106a_fs.html
Efforts to combat crop bioterrorism have focused more on prevention than on preparation. In an attempt to better balance prevention and preparedness efforts, this white paper offers immediate, near-term, and long-term recommendations for investments in infrastructure and resources that will protect plant health.
Author: Public Policy Board of the American Phytopathological Society
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.apsnet.org/members/ppb/PDFs/CropBiosecurityWhitePaper5-03.pdf
This study examined law enforcement's role in protecting American agriculture from international and domestic terrorists, militant animal rights groups, economic opportunists, and disgruntled employees.
Author: Terry Knowles, James Lane, Dr. Gary Bayens,Dr. Nevil Speer, Dr. Jerry Jaax , Dr. David Carter, Dr. Andra Bannister
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/212280.pdf
This document discusses early warning systems and other management approaches that may increase the chances of preventing human exposure if biological weapons are used in drinking water systems.
Author: Jeffery A. Foran & Thomas M. Brosnan
Format: Online
URL: http://www.ehponline.org/realfiles/docs/2000/108p993-995foran/foran-full.html
This report evaluates the Environmental Protection Agency's role in BioWatch, an early warning system designed to detect the release of biological agents in the air through monitoring and laboratory analysis.
Author: Environmental Protection Agency
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2005/20050323-2005-P-00012.pdf
This page provides valuable information regarding the outbreak of BSE in the United States, the risk to humans, and the federal initiatives to combat this disease.
Author: Extension Disaster Education Network
Format: Online
URL: http://eden.lsu.edu/Issues_View.aspx?IssueID=3d9f5165-6e27-4eaa-aa8c-87717aff5f6e
This page provides facts about Exotic Newcastle Disease, how it is being managed in the United States, and what you can do to help stop its spread.
Author: Extension Disaster Education Network
Format: Online
URL: http://eden.lsu.edu/Issues_View.aspx?IssueID=1BB80AFE-24AE-49A9-BD25-7862A2ED2B2E
Occasionally, local health department trainers seek guidance from MDA relative to training procedures for new employees. The ?Training Program for the Professional Food Service Sanitarian? provides an organized approach for teaching technical program information. This document is intended to be a voluntary guide to help trainers provide structure to the field training component.
Author: Michigan Department of Agriculture
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDA_fieldtraining_20453_7.pdf
Various courses relating to food issues including foodborn illnesses, food law, pasteurization, and others.
Author: Michigan Department of Agriculture
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDA_FSSS_Course_Descriptions_71574_7.pdf
This is a dynamic presentation combining a lecture discussing foodsafety and bioterrorism with an interactive tabletop exercise. This hands?on experience will allow participants to interact with other responders in their community and prepare for the possibility of a bioterrror attack.
Author: Center for Public Health Preparedness
Format: Online
URL: http://www.asph.org/acphp/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1034
Foodborne diseases continue to be a major public health problem. Current systems of food production cannot deliver a risk-free food supply. Risk assessment tools provide a basis for managing risks in an informed way in terms of production and regulation of the food supply. This course examines strategies in managing risk for specific food across food systems.
Author: University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness
Format: Classroom
URL: http://www.sph.umn.edu/img/assets/8740/HedbergPubH7215-101.pdf
Foodborne diseases continue to be a major public health problem. Current systems of food production cannot deliver a risk-free food supply. Risk assessment tools provide a basis for managing risks in an informed way, both from the standpoint of production and regulation of the food supply. This course examines strategies for managing risk for specific foods and across the food system.
Author: University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.sph.umn.edu/img/assets/8740/HedbergPubH7216-101.pdf
Online listing of resources for training & education within food safety, public health & other areas.
Author: Michigan Department of Agriculture
Format: Online
URL: http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-1568_2391_2446-59691--,00.html
Powerpoint presentation on difference between food safety & food security, the challenges presented by the prevention of food attacks, assessing vulnerabilities, and the need for partnerships.
Author: Michigan Department of Agriculture
URL: http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-1568_21390-68104--,00.html
This course is part of the Environmental Health (PH 470) course series. These courses can be taken separately and in any sequence desired. The overall PH 470 series provides an introduction to environmental and occupational health. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. Since computers and the Internet's World Wide Web are now basic tools for public health practitioners, these courses also seek to foster and enhance skills related to the use of technology for accessing and using information and for communicating with colleagues.
Author: Center for Public Health Preparedness
Format: Classroom
URL: http://www.asph.org/acphp/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1075
A reaction article to the May 2005 New York Times opinion piece on May 30, 2005 that made the claim that a single terrorist could contaminate the milk supply with a lethal toxin by following the instructions in a jihadi manual available on the Internet.
Author: Milton Leitenberg and George Smith
Format: Online
URL: http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/milk.html
The Environmental Protection Agency's Homeland Security Strategy guides the agency's homeland security efforts, describing its goals, initiatives, and key activities for protecting the nation from the consequences of terrorist attacks.
Author: Environmental Protection Agency
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.epa.gov/OHS/pdfs/EPA-HS-Strategy.pdf
This article outlines the food security guidelines, and provides a industry self-assessment, elements of a checklist, and use of a checklist.
Author: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PPT/Workshop_Food_Security_Checklist_ALT/index.asp
This document examines the reasons to develop a food security plan and provides FSIS tools for this purpose. It also explores food security principles, the elements of a plan, security areas, and additional resources.
Author: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PPT/Workshop_Food_Security_Plans_alt/index.asp
Video interview with Nebraska Extension presenting guidelines for enhanced on-farm security.
Author: University of Nebraska
Format: Online
URL: http://ianrhome.unl.edu/inthenews/agroterrorism.shtml
This model offers guidelines for states developing a plan to respond to agroterrorism and includes information for states that already have plans in place.
Author: National Emergency Management Association
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.nemaweb.org/?68
This article analyzes historical examples of biological weapons programs and biological attacks on agriculture, examines the technical and environmental requirements to develop and weaponize antiagricultural agents, and proposes steps for prevention and response.
Author: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Format: Online
URL: http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so01cameron
This progress report outlines the Food and Drug Administration's 10-Point Program for ensuring the safety and security of the food supply.
Author: U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Format: Online
URL: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fssrep.html
A brief article on steps that can be taken to prevent and/or mitigate the potential harm of the intentional contamination of our food supply.
Author: Dietary Managers Association
Format: Online
URL: http://www.dmaonline.org/fppublic/connect36.html
This exercise involves an intentional attack on our food system with a highly toxic agent. The exercise is designed to be educational in nature and to help participants think through and understand the responses and relationships necessary for the successful resolution of an event. The exercise will last approximately 3 hours and will be broken down into series of six scripts, each with a discussion time of 10-45 minutes.
Author: University of Minnesota
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.sph.umn.edu/img/assets/8805/HayBotToxTabletop.pdf
This report profiles 17 drinking water utilities that are incorporating watershed management and protection as an integral part of their business of providing safe drinking water to their customers.
Author: Environmental Protection Agency
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/swp/swpcases.pdf
This report discusses the federal requirements for the security of the chemical and water sectors, both of which are defined as critical infrastructure systems and assets by the USA PATRIOT Act.
Author: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05327.pdf
Recommendations on combating agroterrorism on organism, farm, sector & national levels.
Author: Anne Kohnen
Format: PDF file
URL: http://ianrhome.unl.edu/inthenews/resources/bcsia_recommendations.pdf
Damage to the nation's water supply and water quality infrastructure could disrupt the delivery of vital services, threaten public health and the environment, and possibly cause loss of life. Currently, no federal standards or established best practices to govern readiness, response, or recovery efforts exist within the water infrastructure sector. This report reviews water infrastructure, describing security-related actions taken by the government and private sector since 9/11, as well as additional policy issues and responses.
Author: C. Copeland and B. Cody, Congressional Research Service
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32189.pdf
The Office of Science and Technology, in conjunction with the RAND Corporation, convened a panel in 2003 to organize a future research and development agenda for combating biological acts of agro-terrorism directed against U.S. livestock and related produce. This report contains the papers submitted for the conference and provides an overview of the findings and recommendations of the forum.
Author: RAND Corporation
Format: PDF file
URL: http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF193/CF193.pdf
This report discusses the views of nationally recognized experts on key issues concerning wastewater security, including the potential vulnerabilities of wastewater systems, activities that most warrant federal support to mitigate the risk of terrorism, and criteria for allocating and distributing federal funds.
Author: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Format: PDF file
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