Tools for Protecting the
Nation’s Food Supply
Amy Kircher, DrPH
National Center for Food Protection and Defense
5 June 2012
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Agenda
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CoreSHIELD
Food Defense Research Database
Economically Motivated Adulteration
FARM Toolkit
FASCAT
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CoreSHIELD is the Information Technology architecture
supporting a collaboration environment of web-based
portals and applications that provides the preferred
gateway for communication, collaboration, education and
training among divergent stakeholders, such as those
responsible for the nation’s food supply.
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Portals and Applications
Portals are created on the CoreSHIELD architecture to allow
communities to connect and
collaborate via portal specific:
• Appearance
• Databases
• Business rules
• Workgroups
Each portal benefits from shared CoreSHIELD
• Functionality
• Contact information
• Leveraged development costs.
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The Statistics
Since 2008 CoreSHIELD has:
• 15,757 distinct accounts across all portals
• 2,550 working groups created on the system
• Had 132,820 logins to CoreSHIELD platforms
In 2011, CoreSHIELD portals had:
• 5,584 active users on the CoreSHIELD platform
• 669 active working groups
• Averaged over 80 webinars each month
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Goal: Assist food-sector stakeholders in
improving their ability to prepare for, respond to,
and recover from food incidents by providing
information/tools that will facilitate integration of
the food-sector into the greater emergency
management community
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Literature Review
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The literature review consisted of four searches for scholarly or
authoritative information as it relates to the topic. Search types include:
– Data submitted by project sponsors
– Database searches
– Internet search engine review for relevant records not found in a
database
– Reference reviews of literature included into the database.
44 Keyword
Search Strings
35 Search
Venues
(database, website, etc)
Keyword
Hits
2,605,495
Abstract
Reviews
15,011
Records in
Database
Records in
907
Database
1054
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Economically Motivated Adulteration:
Industry Impact
• EMA events result in an annual revenues
reduction of, on average, 2-15% (GMA)
• Annual industry impact of EMA is $10-15 billion
• Up to 10% of products in retail are estimated to
contain an EMA component
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Recent Documented Economic
Adulteration Events
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Pet Food
Vegetable Proteins •
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Cooking Oils
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Mushrooms
Pomegranate Juice •
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Apple juice
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Orange juice
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Grape juice
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Grapefruit juice
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Maple syrup
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Honey
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Alcohol
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Bottled water
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Wheat flour
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Cough syrup
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Milk
Dairy Proteins •
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Liquid Eggs
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Gums
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Honey
Vanilla Extract •
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Olive oil
Sunflower oil •
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Seafood
Horseradish •
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Tofu
Maple syrup •
Infant formula •
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Toothpaste
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Poultry
Shell Eggs
Rice
Cheese
Tomato Sauce
Fiber Supplements
Luncheon Meats
Pomegranate Juice
Ground Beef - Water
Ground Meat - Species
Reduced Butter Fat Cream
Basil
Oregano
Shrimp
Dog Treats
Wine
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NCFPD EMA Database
• Web-based interface
• Searchable by various event characteristics:
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Adulterated ingredients & perpetrating firm
Adulterant
Food and brands impacted
Dates (beginning/end)
Locations of production, consumption
Morbidity/mortality
Sources
Brands impacted
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• Initially intended as a means of identifying what is
most critical in the sector to:
– Focus additional risk assessment efforts
– Target mitigation investments
• Comparative and quantitative infrastructure
analysis tool
• Identifies critical supply chain sub-systems &
components
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Using FASCAT 101 (its not about the score)
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Telling state leadership what is critical
Building public – private partnerships
Advocating for resources to “buy-down” risk
Documenting Supply Chains
Submit critical infrastructure nominations 4 DHS Data Call
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BONUS and What’s Next
BONUS: 10% of all critical
infrastructure is now from FA sector.
What’s Next: Dynamic
Supply Chains
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NCFPD Vision
Defending the safety of the food
system through research and
education
http://www.ncfpd.umn.edu
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