Resources
CARVER plus Shock Primer
The CARVER plus Shock method is an offensive targeting prioritization tool that has been adapted for use in the food sector. This tool can be used to assess the vulnerabilities within a system or infrastructure to an attack. It allows you to think like an attacker by identifying the most attractive targets for attack. By conducting such a vulnerability assessment and determining the most vulnerable points in your infrastructure, you can then focus your resources on protecting your most vulnerable points.
FDA has released a CARVER + Shock software that is available for download: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/carver.html
Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Bioterrorism Agents
This document highlights a few of agents that the US is concerned being used as a bioterrorism agent. These agents are broken into Categories A, B, and C and a full description of the criteria for each category is give.
Department of Homeland Security - Agriculture and Food CI/KR Sector Specific Plans
The National Infrastructure Protection Plan provides the unifying structure for the integration of critical infrastructure and key resources protection efforts into a single national program. It includes 17 sector specific plans (SSPs), in which agriculture and the food supply is one, which describes the application of the overall risk management framework for each of these sectors.
Department of Homeland Security - National Response Framework
This National Response Framework (Framework) is a guide to how the nation conducts all-hazards incident response. It is built upon flexible, scalable and adaptable coordinating structures to align key roles and responsibilities across the nation. It is intended to capture specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters. This document explains the common discipline and structures that have been exercised and matured at the local, state and national levels over time. It captures key lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, focusing particularly on how the Federal Government is organized to support communities and States in catastrophic incidents. Most importantly, it builds upon the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which provides a consistent national template for managing incidents.
Department of Homeland Security - Target Capabilities List
The Target Capabilities List (TCL) is a companion to the National Preparedness Goal. The Target Capabilities List (TCL) defines the capabilities, outcomes, measures, and risk-based target levels of capability for the Nation to achieve the Goal.
Food & Drug Administration - Dairy Farms, Bulk Milk Transporters, Milk Transfer Guideline
This guidance represents FDA's current thinking on the kinds of measures that operators of dairy farms, bulk milk transportation operations, bulk milk transfer stations, and fluid milk processing facilities may take to minimize the risk that fluid milk under their control will be subject to tampering or other malicious, criminal, or terrorist actions.
Food & Drug Administration - Food Producers, Processors and Transporters Guideline
This guidance is designed as an aid to operators of food establishments (firms that produce, process, store, repack, relabel, distribute, or transport food or food ingredients). This is a very diverse set of establishments, which includes both very large and very small entities.
Food & Drug Administration - Importers and Filers, Food Security Preparedness Measures Guideline
This guidance is designed as an aid to operators of food importing establishments, storage warehouses, and filers. It identifies the kinds of preventive measures that they may take to minimize the risk that food under their control will be subject to tampering or other malicious, criminal, or terrorist actions.
Food & Drug Administration - Retail Food Stores and Service Establishments Guideline
This guidance is designed as an aid to operators of retail food stores and food service establishments (for example, bakeries, bars, bed-and-breakfast operations, cafeterias, camps, child and adult day care providers, church kitchens, commissaries, community fund raisers, convenience stores, fairs, food banks, grocery stores, interstate conveyances, meal services for home-bound persons, mobile food carts, restaurants, and vending machine operators).
Food Safety & Inspection Service - Keep America's Food Safe
This guidance is designed to assist transporters, warehouses, distributors, retailers and restaurants with enhancing their security program to further protect the food supply from contamination due to criminal or terrorist acts.
Food Safety & Inspection Service Model Food Security Plan - Eggs
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the FSIS Security Guidelines for Food Processors to assist meat, poultry, and egg product plants in identifying ways to strengthen their food security protection.
Food Safety & Inspection Service Model Food Security Plan - Importers
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the FSIS Security Guidelines for Food Processors to assist meat, poultry, and egg product plants in identifying ways to strengthen their food security protection.
Food Safety & Inspection Service Model Food Security Plan - Processing
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the FSIS Security Guidelines for Food Processors to assist meat, poultry, and egg product plants in identifying ways to strengthen their food security protection.
Food Safety & Inspection Service Model Food Security Plan - Slaughter
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the FSIS Security Guidelines for Food Processors to assist meat, poultry, and egg product plants in identifying ways to strengthen their food security protection.
FSIS Safety & Security Guidelines for the Transportation and Distribution of Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products
The FSIS Food Safety and Security Guidelines for the Transportation and Distribution of Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products are designed to aid those handling food products during transportation and storage.
Food Safety & Inspection Service - Security Guidelines for Food Processors
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has prepared the enclosed, FSIS Security Guidelines for Food Processors, to assist Federal and State inspected plants that produce meat, poultry and egg products in identifying ways to strengthen their biosecurity protection.
Food Safety & Inspection Service - Self Assessment Checklist
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) created this self-assessment instrument to provide a tool for establishments to assess the extent to which they have secured their operations.
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 5, 7, 8, & 9
These presidential directives are ones specific to the food and animal sectors and detail the requirements and policies that will be (or have been) established in order to secure these critical infrastructure.
National Incident Management System
This system provides a consistent nationwide template to enable Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to work together effectively and efficiently to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size, or complexity, including acts of catastrophic terrorism.
National Infrastructure Protection Plan
The NIPP provides the coordinated approach that will be used to establish national priorities, goals, and requirements for CI/KR protection so that Federal funding and resources are applied in the most effective manner to reduce vulnerability, deter threats, and minimize the consequences of attacks and other incidents.
National Response Plan
The NRP represents a true "national" framework in terms of both product and process. The NRP development process included extensive vetting and coordination with Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, private-sector entities, and the first-responder and emergency management communities across the country.
Stafford Act (updated June 2007)
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, PL 100-707, signed into law November 23, 1988; amended the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, PL 93-288. This Act constitutes the statutory authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to FEMA and FEMA programs.
Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) Initiative - First Year Report
United States Department of Agriculture - Pre-Harvest Security Guidelines
The voluntary guidelines and checklist presented here provide a pre-harvest security resource and are designed to help the agricultural producer reduce security risks at the farm level. Each producer should review the guidelines and checklist to determine the recommendations most appropriate for his or her operations.
World Health Organization - Food Safety Issues: Terrorist Threats to Food
The malicious contamination of food for terrorist purposes is a real and current threat, and deliberate contamination of food at one location could have global public health implications. This document responds to increasing concern in Member States that chemical, biological or radionuclear agents might be used deliberately to harm civilian populations and that food might be a vehicle for disseminating such agents. The Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly (May 2002) also expressed serious concern about such threats and requested the Organization to provide tools and support to Member States to increase the capacity of national health systems to respond.