FDA s Food Defense Program

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1 FDA s Food Defense Program PA EDEN Food Protection Conference October 28, 2009 LeeAnne Jackson, Ph.D. Health Science Policy Advisor Food Defense Oversight Team Office of Food Defense, Communication, and Emergency Response Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration LeeAnne.Jackson@fda.hhs.gov 1

2 Raising Food Defense Awareness 2

3 FDA s 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 3

4 ALERT See for more information 4

5 FDA s ALERT Initiative 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 5

6 WEB-BASED TRAINING NOW AVAILABLE AT /ALERT/default.htm AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH 6

7 FOOD DEFENSE AWARENESS 7

8 Employees FIRST WHO: Anyone who handles food, steps onto the production floor while food is being processed or is involved in making a food product. 8

9 Employees FIRST Follow company food defense plan and procedures. Inspect your work area and surroundings areas. Recognize anything out of the ordinary. Secure all ingredients, supplies and finished product. Tell management if you notice anything unusual or suspicious. 9

10 FIRST Employees Food Defense Awareness Training Training Kit for management to incorporate into company s food defense training program for first-line employees 12 minute DVD Use images to re-enforce key message 10

11 FIRST Educational Publications DVD (Option to choose English or Spanish) 11

12 FIRST Educational Publications Posters: English Spanish 12

13 FIRST Employees The Employees FIRST Tool Kit is free and available for ordering at : nse/training/ucm htm 13

14 Coming Soon Winter 2009 FIRST Tool Kit is being translated into additional languages: Chinese (Mandarin) Korean Vietnamese Japanese French 14

15 Food Defense Tools 15

16 CARVER + Shock Overview Method of choice for food and agriculture vulnerability assessments 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 16

17 CARVER + Shock Considers seven factors that affect the desirability 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 Psychological effects of an attack 17

18 CARVER + Shock Software Version 1 released June 2007 Target audiences = manufacturers and processors Identifies vulnerabilities within your facility using the CARVER + Shock Methodology Based on company information entered by the user Housed on the users computer, no 3 rd party access to data Customized results available only to the user Download at 18

19 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 19

20 Exercise In A Box Food/Agriculture Event Response Activities Kits Five scenarios for discussion-based exercises that will be compiled into a toolkit Distributed via electronic media. 20

21 Exercise In A Box The toolkit will consist of: 1 Seminar: 3-4 hrs; and discussion based on introduction to emergency planning 1 Workshop: 3-4 hrs; discussions encouraging participant interaction 3 Tabletop exercises: 6-7 hrs; scenario based in-depth discussions by policy or decision making personnel 21

22 Preventative Measures 22

23 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 23

24 Food Defense Mitigation Coming Fall 2009 Strategies Database Contains a range of preventative measures for industry to consider Searchable Current version focuses on manufacturers, processors and distributors Current version contains roughly 60 production steps (Nodes) 24

25 Food Defense Mitigation Strategies Database Mitigations strategies are tiered Tiers based on cost and complexity of implementing strategy Mitigations compiled from: Guidance Documents Open Literature Industry Input Additional nodes being developed including farm and retail/food service steps 25