Step three in developing a food defense plan. In 1984, members of an Oregon cult intentionally contaminated restaurant salad bars with Salmonella bacteria.

Writing Your Own Food Defense Plan

Step three in developing a food defense plan

No Bleu Cheese Please!

In 1984, members of an Oregon cult intentionally contaminated restaurant salad bars with Salmonella bacteria.

They were attempting to influence an election.

751 individuals became ill, and 45 of those were hospitalized.

Food Defense Plan Defense plans are

encouraged but not required for food establishments.

Courtesy of Food Technology magazine, from "Defending the Food Supply," August 2005, Vol. 59, No.8.  Food Technology is a publication of the Institute of Food Technologists, www.ift.org.

Facilities Currently Required to Participate

in Food Defense All vendors providing processed

foods to USDA federal feeding programs must be in compliance with the Food Defense System.

What do I Need to Write a Food Defense Plan?

Vulnerability assessment Map of Facility Operational documents

HACCP plan SOP or GMP BQA or PQA plans

Who Will Be Responsible?

Designate a food defense coordinator to develop, implement and maintain the Food Defense Plan

Write the plan

Describe each vulnerability specifically.

Decide if the vulnerability is practical to address.

Determine a countermeasure.

Write the plan (continued) Decide who will be responsible to

implement the countermeasure. Choose a reasonable timeline for

implementation. Initial plan when implementation of

countermeasure is completed.

Implement the plan

Install countermeasures Workforce implementation

F – follow company food defense plan and procedures

I – inspect your work area and surrounding R – recognize anything out of the ordinary S – secure all ingredients, supplies and

finished product T – tell management if you notice anything

unusual or suspicious

Managing the plan

Review and revise the plan to accommodate new and newly elevated risks

Train the employees regarding their effort in: Prevention Detection Response

Test the countermeasures after implementation Make unannounced entrances at various

checkpoints Check locks in vulnerable areas Perform a mock recall Test inventory procedures

Managing the plan (continued)

Managing the plan (continued)

Re-evaluate the plan annually or as products, processes or facilities change.

Copies of the plan should be kept on-site and off-site.

Beef Cow-Calf Operation

Family owned pasture based cow-calf and grass finishing operation.

Livestock on farm 100 fall-calving cows and their calves 25 replacement heifers 20 steers being grass finished

Located 8 miles outside of town on a county highway.

Beef Cow-Calf Operation (continued)

Farm is 440 acres Two pole barns, one three-sided

structure Perimeter has woven wire fence and

two strands of barbed wire with no gate on driveway.

Well Head

Feed Bins

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Q# Specific Vulnerability PracticalY/N Countermeasures Who will

ImplementTimeline to

ImplementationDate

CompletedInitials

1Driveway has no gate yes Add a gate at driveway

entranceMurray, Brangus

and Angus 11-18-0910-10-09MGM

1 No exterior cameras no

1 No signage on perimeter fence yes Add “no trespassing” and “no hunting”

signs to fenceMurray, Brangus

and Angus 6-18-097-20-09

AM

1 Perimeter fencing is not monitored regularly yes Implement a schedule for monitoring

fence line monthlyBrangus and

Angus 6-18-09 6-10-09 BM

2 Door for pharmaceutical and chemical storage not

lockedyes Add lock to door and limit number of keys

issued (family members only) Murray 6-18-0911-15-09MGM

3 Procedures for feeding, doctoring, processing cattle

are not secureno

3 Visitor log yes Implement a visitor log system Murray10-15-09MGM

4 Liability for cattle not in shipping and sellers

agreementyes

Negotiate the agreement so liability for calves sold at auction is with hauler and

then auction facilityMurray 6-18-09

6-7-09MGM

5 No inventory system for feed chemicals or pharmaceuticals

yes Develop and inventory system Murray 11-18-099-28-09MGM

6 Well head is not locked yes Lock well head Murray 11-18-099-15-09MGM

6 Well head is not locked yes

8 No security training for family yes Familiarize family with SCAN and other

security training Murray 11-18-0910-2-09MGM

9 Fences between farms don’t limit access to

livestockno

9 Feed is not stored in a lockable facility no

Work on completing your food defense plan