Food Biosecurity Resources
Government Sites
NEW!
Online registration
of food facilities - The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) requires
domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold
food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register
with the FDA by December 12, 2003.
The Bioterrorism
Act of 2002
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, reinforced
the need to enhance the security of the United States. Congress responded
by passing the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and
Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act), which President Bush signed
into law June 12, 2002.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/bioterrorism/bioact.html
Keeping
America's Food and Agriculture Safe
USDA Bioterrorism page
http://www.usda.gov/homelandsecurity
FDA Bioterrorism
page
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/bioterrorism.html
CDC bioterrorism
site
http://www.bt.cdc.gov
CDC Responds: Risk Communication and Bioterrorism December 6, 2001 http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/bio1206.asp
GUIDANCE
FOR INDUSTRY
Food Producers, Processors, Transporters, and Retailers:
Food Security Preventive Measures Guidance
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/secguid6.html
FOOD
SAFETY AND SECURITY (powerpoint presentation)
Operational Risk Management DHHS, US Food and Drug Administration, Center
for Food Safety and Nutrition
Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Operational Risk Management Systems Approach
November 2001
Presented by DHHS US Food and Drug Administration
FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY (PDF
- adobe acrobat)
FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY (MSWord
file)
Frequently
Asked Consumer Questions About Food Safety and Terrorism
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fsterrqa.html
COMPREHENSIVE
GOVERNMENT FOOD SAFETY SITE LINKS BIOTERRORISM INFORMATION
November 13, 2001 A group of government food safety and public health
agencies has created an on-line gateway to federal and state information
on countering bioterrorism and other threats to the food supply. The gateway
includes information about possible biological threats, actions taken
to protect against them and information about hoaxes. For more information,
go to
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/bioterr.html
Agricultural
Bioterrorism
(By Dr. David Franz, Vice President, Chemical and Biological Defense,
Division Southern Research Institute)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/training/ss_2000/pdf/agr-bioterrorism.pdf
Agricultural
Counterterrorism
(By Dr. David Huxsoll, USDA, ARS, Plum Island Animal Disease Center) http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/training/ss_2000/pdf/agr-counterterrorism.pdf
U.S. Army
infectious disease site:
http://www.usamriid.army.mil/education/bluebook.html
Industry
Sites
National
Food Processors Association Security Check List
http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/biosecurechklst.pdf
Heads
Up for HACCP from National Meat Association
http://www.nmaonline.org/files/headsup10.15.01.htm
National
Grocers Association
http://www.nationalgrocers.org/Alerts/Alert17-Anthrax.html
National
Meat Association Addresses Biosecurity in Teleconference
http://www.nmaonline.org/files/pr10.11.01.htm
Other Sites of Interest
Penn State
On-the-Farm Biosecurity Resources
http://www.vetsci.psu.edu/Ext/Biosecurity/BioMain.htm
Federation
of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/bwc/agr/main.htm
Institute
for the Prevention of Terrorism
http://www.mipt.org/agterror-rpt.html
Agrodefense
Information Resource
(Humanitarian Resource Institute)
http://www.humanitarian.net/eidnet/fmd/agroterrorism.html
Agro-Terrorism
(Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation
Studies)
http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/agromain.htm
Bioterrorism:
Homeland Defense Symposium, Feb. 8-10, Santa Monica, CA
http://www.rand.org/nsrd/bioterr/agenda1.htm
Johns
Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense:
http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org
Anthrax Overview:
Anthrax Overview from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention http://www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Anthrax/Anthrax.asp
Human
Ingestion of Bacillus Anthracis-Contaminated Meat
Minnesota, August 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4936a1.htm
Guidelines
for the Surveillance and Control of Anthrax in Human and Animals. 3rd
edition. World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/emc-documents/zoonoses/docs/whoemczdi986.html#_Hlk436634050
or for PDF version:
http://www.who.int/emc-documents/zoonoses/docs/whoemczdi986text.pdf
Emergency Response Pages:
CDC Public
Health Emergency Preparedness & Response Page
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
Department
of Health & Human Services Preparedness Response Page
http://www.hhs.gov/hottopics/healing/biological.html
Pennsylvania
Department of Health Preparedness & Response Page
http://webserver.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=171&Q=229813
Johns
Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense:
http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org
Contacts
and Procedures for Health Emergencies:
Directory of PA State Health Officials
http://www.fda.gov/ora/fed_state/State_Directory_Files/pennsylvania.html
Notification
Procedures for State and Local Public Health Officials
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/EmContact/Protocols.asp
Commentary:
Tasty
Target?
Experts, Officials Assess Terrorist Threat to Nation's Food Industry and
Supply
By Michael S. James ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/strike_food011019.html
Food As
A Weapon
Dr. Richard Lee, M.D.
SUNY, Buffalo, New York
Ecology and Environment, Inc.
http://www.litigation.support.ene.com/bioterrorism/DrLee.pdf
Illegal
meat 'poses terror threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1578000/1578433.stm
