Industry Safety
Food Safety
Food Security

United States risk factors & analysis of the threat facing the agricultural sector as a potential terrorist target

Selected readings on the subject

What to do to keep your birds (such as poultry) healthy from avian flu virus

Agricultural biosecurity guides and checklists

A guide for food defense for food processors and distributors

A risk-assessment tool for food processors to protect food products from deliberate contamination

USDA activities

Links to US government websites on information related to food security

A series of tools and documents to assist in creating a food defense plan to improve food security at your facility

Guidance for creating a function food defense plan

Voluntary plan documents your measures to protect food and food production processes from intentional harm

Guide to developing a food defense plan for owners and operators of warehouse and distribution centers

Guidelines for the disposal of intentionally adulterated food products and decontamination of food processing facilities

Guidance designed to assist transporters, warehouses, distributors, retailers and restaurants with their security

Includes an operational risk assessment matrix

Focuses on the prevention of, rather than reaction to, intentional contamination

Minimize the risk of food being subjected to tampering or criminal or terrorist action

Preventive measures to take to minimize the risk that food under their control will be tampered

Recommended controls in light of the potential for tampering or other malicious, criminal, or terrorist actions

Provisions to protect the US food supply against terrorist acts and other threats

Biological security measures designed to reduce the risk of disease spread

A web-based system for supporting food and agriculture protection and defense

Guidance on transporting and distributing meat, poultry and egg products.

Security checklists for commercial transporters of agricultural commodities and food products and their drivers (pdf)

The template is designed to assist states with developing a food emergency response plan

Guidance to improve food security plans in meat, poultry and egg product plants

Guide for developing security practices in transporting agricultural and food commodities

Integrates the nation's food-testing laboratories at the local, state, and federal levels into a food emergency network

To help protect the nation's supply of meat, poultry, and egg products from intentional contamination

Identifies some possible countermeasures that companies could implement, as part of a food defense plan

Security guidance for agricultural and food transportors, countering bioterrorism in the food supply and more

Voluntary plan documents small plant measures to protect food and food production processes from intentional harm