Green Markets audio conference explores key security issues facing fertilizer industry

摘要

Registrants to Green Markets' Oct. 23 audio conference heard up-to-date analysis of the many security issues currently facing the fertilizer industry. Speakers for the 90-minute interactive event, entitled Chemical Security and the Fertilizer Industry, included MaryBeth Kelliher of the Department of Homeland Security, Jim Schellhorn of Terra Industries Inc., and Richard Gupton of the Agricultural Retailers Association.Kelliher kicked off the event with an in-depth look at the new Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), which were published in April and went into effect June 8, 2007. As chief of DHS's Policy and Programs Branch, Kelliher described in detail the department's Chemical Security Assessment Tool, calling it the "backbone of the CFATS program." The fertilizer and chemical industries are still waiting for the release of the final Appendix A list of chemicals and screening threshold quantities, which Kelliher reviewed and said will be published this fall.