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At a time when the world’s food supply remains fragile and unpredictable, a new generation of food defense professionals is emerging. Many food professionals are taking on this role for the first time or with limited experience. Others lack historical knowledge that left with colleagues during the great resignation. These employees might have experience with […]
Reinforce Food Defense with Managers, Supervisors and Frontline Employees
Most consumers are generally confident food manufacturers are taking every possible precaution to ensure the safety of the food they put on their tables. Inspections, regulations, and best practices can go a long way to keeping foods safe. But one of the biggest threats remains from within.
Food Defense 101: The Three Types of Food Defense Threat Motivations
Intentional adulteration is only carried out after careful study and preparation by an attacker – is your food defense program equally prepared to address such acts?
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Food Defense 101: Understanding Food Defense Roles and Stakeholders
Different professionals from the public and private sectors contribute to food defense. Many of the familiar stakeholders involved in food safety incidents will be required in a food defense incident, but because intentional adulteration is a crime or an act of terror, additional groups will need to be engaged.
Food Defense 101: Key Activity Types
Food processors who fall under the Intentional Adulteration Rule (IA Rule) must conduct a vulnerability assessment as part of their food defense plan. A vulnerability assessment measures potential public health impact (e.g. severity and scale), degree of physical access to the product, and the ability of an inside attacker to successfully adulterate your products.
What is Food Defense Risk Analysis?
Risk analysis is a process that helps manufacturers identify and manage potential problems in their process or facility. A food defense risk analysis model has three components: risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. Risk assessment refers to rating the severity and likelihood of a certain hazard or threat. Risk management refers to making decisions […]
Arming Your Employees to Prevent Food Fraud
Food fraud is the deception of consumers using food products, ingredients and packaging for economic gain. Although food fraud has only recently received heightened attention, it’s been around a long time.
Food Defense Qualified Individual: Everything You Need to Know
Under the Food Safety Modernization Act Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (21 CFR Part 121) regulation, commonly referred to as the IA Rule, covered facilities must develop and implement a food defense plan.
Recognize the Difference Between Food Defense and Food Safety
Can you spot the difference between food safety and food defense? While both have an important place in your facility, each presents distinct characteristics and consequences.
Your Defense Against Intentional Adulteration
The idea of contaminated food brings up images of court jesters doing taste tests to make sure that kings and queens aren’t poisoned. Stories of intentional adulteration go back hundreds of years.
