Federal Agencies Partner With Private Industry for Bioterrorism Vulnerability Assessment

摘要

Four Federal Government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have created the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) initiative that allows them to work with industry volunteers and State agricultural and health counterparts to assess the potential risk from terrorist attacks against sectors of the agriculture and food industry. The first joint SPPA initiative exercise was held in December 2005 to examine the vulnerability of export grain elevators. The exercise was conducted at an export elevator outside of New Orleans, LA, Participants in this exercise included volunteers from the grain industry.