Slides - AFDOSS

Food Defense Awareness / FREE‐B Toolkit
Presentation @ the AFDO‐SS Annual Conference
September 10, 2012
FDA / CFSAN
Office of Food Defense, Communication and Emergency Response
Food Defense Oversight Team
Jason Bashura
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Food Defense overview
 FD tools, resources, programs 
FDOT DVD – Tools, resources, Programs, links
 Funding Opportunities
 Recent workshops / webinars: FD with a FREE‐B exercise
 Food Safety Summit
 NACCHO annual conference
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But first….
 National Preparedness Month ‐ www.READY.gov
 Your family
 Your community
 Your workplace
Preparedness is sort of like… building a plane, in the sky… we need to continue on with our daily lives, yet, think about what would happen if….
Several years ago…
 I was sitting in food inspector recertification training…
 Same old, same old…  How many time can we talk about cooking, holding temps; chlorine ratios and food protection issues…  and then….
 The world changed as we all know it.  We all have similar memories of where we were, and the moments, hours and days after September 11, 2001
 Who was Rick Rescorla?
 Who is ‘your’ agency or firm Rick Rescorla?
Food Defense Oversight Team
 Staff of 8 – actually, 7 – but soon to be 11.
 Cory Bryant: new role of Deputy Country Dir. (China) for Food
 Currently re‐evaluating our mission, goals for FY ’13
 Research, Outreach, Education and Awareness
 Soon to be expanded to include emergency response/coordination What is Food Defense?
 Food Defense – the efforts to prevent intentional contamination of food products
by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents that are not reasonably likely to occur in the food supply
 Human intervention as the source of contamination
How is it Different from….
 Food Safety – the efforts to prevent unintentional contamination of food products
by agents reasonably likely to occur in the food supply (e.g., E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria)
 Natural / environmental source of contamination
 Food Security – the reliable availability of a sufficient quantity and quality of nutritious food for a population
The Spectrum of Food Contamination
ACCIDENTAL
Contamination
Disgruntled
Employees /
Sabotage*
Economic
Adulteration*
Food
Contamination
Counterfeit/
Diversion/
Tampering*
INTENTIONAL*
Contamination
*Denotes mode of
human interference
with wrongful intent
Why Are We Concerned?
 Intentional contamination does happen
2010
Beijing ‐ The food poisoning of 203 US uncovers plot to poison hotels and hospital patients in northeast China was restaurants at multiple locations
an intentional act, police said…
2007
2003
2010
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
2003
61 Students felled by rat poison
Arsenic Poisoning in central China
Caused by Intentional Italy on alert for
Contamination of Coffee water poisoner
2006
at a Church Gathering
350 Iraqi Policeman Suffer
2002
Food Poisoning
2003
'Al-Qa'ida' attempt to
2003
Grocery store worker poison Rome's water
accused of poisoning Milk alert as poison terrorist supply foiled
beef
strikes
FDA’s Tools, Resources and Programs
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Food Defense Tools, Resources and Programs
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Training Tools
 ALERT: for management and regulators
 Employees FIRST: for front‐line workers
•Training kit is available on‐line:
–Handouts
–Presentations
–Video
 Vulnerability Assessment Software
 Download
 Free of charge
 Mitigation Strategies Database
 On‐line resource
 Open access
www.fda.gov/fooddefense
FDA Industry Guidance
 For food producers, processors and transporters; importers and filers; retail food stores and food service establishments; dairy industry; and cosmetic processors and transporters
NEW tools and resources postcard / DVD, 2012
Tools and Resources
Education & Outreach
Food Defense Programs
Regulatory Information
Emergencies
Food‐Related Emergency Exercise ‐ Bundle
 FREE‐B
 Workshops just completed (9) – more to follow…
 Complete kits
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Lead planner’s guide, facilitator’s manual and situation manual
 Different scenarios
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Intentional as well as unintentional
 FREE and downloadable from: www.fda.gov/FoodDefense
Food‐Related Emergency Exercise ‐ Bundle
 Based on feedback received from workshops completed:
 3 new scenarios to be developed: feed, water and recovery based scenarios.
 Existing content will be clarified: question mapping, objectives connected to other national strategies, such as the PHEP contracts, PPD‐8, National Health Security Strategy
 As you can imagine, it’s all about communications… inter‐
agency, intra‐agency, between and amongst various community groups, NGOs, industry, public health community….
FREE‐B Workshops
FDOT is seeking to evaluate the use of the FREE‐B to improve / modify the tool moving forward. FDOT issued funds to support 9 ‘exercises’ utilizing the FREE‐B tool. Additional funding might be made available , based on successes realized from most recent series of workshops.
Domestic and International Outreach  Currently assessing plans for FY ’13
 FREE‐B exercises
 Conferences and meetings:  Food Safety Summit available via FoodSHIELD
 Food Defense Wkshp @ NACCHO annual conference (7/11)
 Engagement with state and local stakeholders through the FDA’s Division of Federal State Relations (DFSR)
Other efforts that are underway…. 23
Food Defense Plan Builder
 Currently under development
 User‐friendly application designed to assist owners and operators of food facilities develop a personalized food defense plan
 Guides users through a series of sections that make up the contents of a food defense plan. 
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Company Information
General Preventive Measures
Vulnerability Assessment
Mitigation Strategies
Response Plan
Action Plan Food Defense Plan Builder
 Harnesses existing FDA tools and resources into one single application  FDA will not track or have access to documents or any content saved by users of the Food Defense Plan Builder  Content will align with FDA guidance and regulations, as appropriate Online Food Defense Training Tools
 Being updated to reflect current thinking on Food Defense
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Food and Agriculture Sector info
 Monthly newsletter to stakeholders
 Food Defense Research Database
 Food and Agriculture Criticality Assessment Tool (FASCAT)
 Food and Agriculture Readiness Matrix (FARM)
Funding Opportunities:
 Innovative Food Defense Program
 FREE‐B workshops
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 Small Scientific Conference Grants
 Food Protection Task Force Grants
 Rapid Response Teams
 Capacity Building Grants
Innovative Food Defense Program
 Up to $100k  Designed to generate food defense tools and resources that are “easily replicated” and “can complement, aid in the development of, or improve State, local, Tribal and territorial (SLTT) food defense programs.” Innovative Food Defense Program
To date, the FDA has funded greater than $800,000 to 11 sites
 Completed efforts, to date, include: • A food defense toolkit for retail operations (Multnomah County, OR)
• A retail food establishment assessment / training tool (South Carolina)
• GIS / Emergency response and coordination tools
Several that are still ‘open’ addressing education and training, IT / GIS related, consumer awareness campaigns… Innovative Food Defense Program
3 new recipients were awarded (up to $100k) the IFDP grants for FY ’13:
Cuyahoga County District Board of Health
Michigan Department of Agriculture
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Questions on Funding Opportunities?
 Please contact the Division of Federal State Relations, at:
DFSR@FDA.HHS.GOV
Recent Workshops
Food Defense Research Database What is the Food Defense Research Database? The FDRD is a repository of food defense information, cataloguing and storing research on food defense or the intentional contamination of food or water. The database houses publications, projects, presentations, and reports produced by the government, academia, and the private sector, identifying research about intentional or catastrophic events in the food and agriculture sector. Who is the database for? Public and private food sector leaders; Researchers of food defense information in academia, government, and industry Organizers of and participants in food‐sector vulnerability assessments. Why was the database created? The Joint Council for Research of the Food and Agriculture Sector/Government Coordinating Councils identified a gap in recognizing food defense research in food and agriculture, as well as in maintaining a useful database of research. This revealed a patchwork of projects with significant variation in both accuracy and focus and did not take into consideration the academic and private sector research efforts.
Food Defense Research Database How can the database be used? Through advanced search capability users can find information on specific topics or interest items without having to know exact titles, names, or funding agencies. Users also have the opportunity to suggest updates to the database with new work or work not previously included through an easy upload feature. How was the database created? The database was populated by searching government, organization, academic, and public domain websites, databases and publication reserves using keyword search strings to find food defense works. As of May 2011, this effort has scanned over 2.6 million records. Conclusions
 Need to prevent, detect, and respond to intentional contamination of the food supply:
 Be aware of threats / use preventive measures to reduce vulnerability of food supply
 Understand characteristics and tactics of aggressors, including disgruntled employees
 Strengthen communication lines between industry and government
 FDOT continues to provide outreach, tools and resources to build the Food Defense capacities needed both domestically and internationally
 Everyone eats – everyone is potentially a target
In closing:
We’ve discussed:
Food Defense tools, resources, programs & initiatives…
Discussed some of the funding opportunities….
By Honoring the past, we are shaping the future…. However, by recognizing what we’ve done in the past we can honor the present, and PREPARE for the future.
Thanks for your time and attention!
Jason Bashura, MPH, RS
Jason.Bashura@fda.hhs.gov
240‐402‐2912
www.FDA.gov/FoodDefense