Food for Thought - The Use of Hazard and Critical Control Point Analysis to Assess Vulnerability of Food to Terrorist Attack in Deployment Locations, A Case Study

摘要

As part of a case study, a literature review, personal interviews, and a field study at several deployment locations in one Area of Responsibility were completed to examine the historical use of biological warfare agents and the vulnerability of food at military deployment locations to bio-terrorist attack. The results of the study suggest the following: historically, food has occasionally been used as a weapon by individuals; a bench-mark procedure already exists to evaluate and ensure the safety of foods procured and used by the United States federal government; food sources at the deployment locations examined are vulnerable to terrorist attack as determined by a critical control point analysis; and efforts to prevent bio-terrorism employing food have not kept pace with the potential threat to food safety. Recommendations to potentially decrease the vulnerability of the United States military food supply to intentional contamination are also provided.