Food Defense

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For over a century, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Food & Drug Administration have been protecting our food supply.  In Wisconsin, personnel with the state’s Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection – Division of Food Safety have comparable responsibilities for food produced and sold within the state. This experience has provided food regulators with a solid food safety infrastructure which allows them to focus on strengthening existing programs and improving lines of communication, both internally and externally, so that they can properly respond to a food security emergency.

• Food Safety & Security – What Consumers Need to Know
  
  • Food Defense and Emergency Response
  • Food Safety and Defense
  • Keeping Food Safe in an Emergency
• Food Defense Basics for Food Processors
  
  • What is Food Defense?
  • Why Develop a Food Defense Plan?
  • Food Defense Checklists, Worksheets and Guides
  • Developing a Food Defense Plan for Meat and Poultry Slaughter and Process Plants (Jan 2007; PDF)
• Agricultural Preparedness and Response
  • How to report animal diseases
  • Information on various animal diseases
  • Pandemic flu
  • Agricultural biosecurity
  • How to prepare for emergencie
  This website also provides links to other resources that may be useful in an emergency.