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March 2014
Dr. Amy Kircher, DrPH
NCFPD Director
Washington, D.C.
Science & Technology
Directorate National Center for Food Protection
and Defense (NCFPD)
COE S&T Review
Presenter’s Name June 17, 2003
NCFPD Overview
COE Description
Center Mission Statement: Defend the safety of the food
system through research and education. Completion of the
mission is accomplished by:
Reducing the likelihood of an attack Improving the nation’s ability to respond effectively to
an attack Reducing the consequences of an attack
COE Lead
University of Minnesota
Create novel capabilities to prevent and detect intentional
adulteration in the food system
Develop tools and technologies to assess threats and
manage risk from intentional adulteration in the global food
supply
Strengthen stakeholder and sector capabilities to defend
the international food system through information sharing
platforms and applications
Lead a multidisciplinary and action-oriented consortium
Increase the awareness of food defense through training
and education
NCFPD History and Funding
Established in 2004
The Center has received the following funds through
OUP vehicles:
$41.2 M in base financial assistance funding from
OUP
$7.9M in financial assistance funding from other
sources
$3.3M in contract funding under the Basic Ordering
Agreement
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Import
Data
Supply
Chain
Predictive
Analysis
FIDES Dashboard: Identifying and predicting
disruption in the global food system
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NCFPD Research Portfolio
Research Theme Areas
Agent Behavior
Detection platforms and sampling techniques
Supply Chains and System Strategies
Supply Chain Design and food product tracing
Risk Management
Risk and vulnerability assessments
Risk message development and media assessments
Information Sharing
Lessons learned for government and industry
Cyber security in the food sector
Identifying food sector priorities and needs
Expected Uses
Isolation and detection of contaminants in the food supply
Preparedness and mitigation strategy assessment for
food system events
Decision support for food system events
Active engagement of multiple audiences in effective risk
communications
Procedural information sharing protocols
Prioritized intervention strategies
Customers
DHS Science and Technology
DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection
DHS Customs and Border Protection
DHS Office of Health Affairs
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,
Foreign Agriculture Service, and Food Safety Inspection
Service
FDA Office of Risk Assessment and Center for Food
Security And Nutrition
FBI
State Agencies
Industry (individual companies and trade organizations)
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Economically Motivated Adulteration Supply Chain Network Model
Prototype using CBP import data
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NCFPD End to End – CRISTAL
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End Users/Partners
Beta-testers
Land O’ Lakes
Lunds & Byerly’s Grocery
Pork Industry
In Development
Industries involved in the global food system
Food system owners and operators
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
DHS National Protection and Program Directorate
Description
CRIticality SpaTial AnaLysis (CRISTAL)
Goals
Define and document supply chain nodes and
transportation links
Link components of the entire food supply chain system
as opposed to focusing only on one facility or
transportation link or mode
Calculate risk for single nodes or links, or as a group,
based on scores
Impact & Relevance
Enable private sector data to be securely collected by an
unbiased 3rd party
Increase traceback and traceforward speed in food recall
or contamination events
Permit food companies and insurers to independently
identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks at the necessary
scale (facility, sub-system, and system levels)
Identify critical nodes in the systems, transportation links
or routes, and interdependencies (water/electricity)
Increase understanding of threats and opportunities to
implement mitigation strategies
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Supply chain nodes, transportation links, and risk scores
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NCFPD Education Overview
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Professional Development
Professional development events and training
programs delivered:
Research in Food Protection Monthly Webinar Series
(~120 participants/month)
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service Food Defense
Workshop
NCFPD Food Defense Collaborative Exchange (5
participants from FBI, 17 International Partner
Organizations from 7 countries)
Description
Food defense education and training for HS-STEM
professionals in government and industry
Goals
Deliver training on food defense skills and competencies
to food industry professionals and government officials
with homeland security or regulatory missions
Educate next generation of workforce to protect the food
supply
Increase awareness of intentional adulteration of our
global food system
Collaborations/Partners
Frontier Interdisciplinary eXperiences (FIX)
Student emersion in industry and government food
defense practices (partners include CBP ports)
Student experiential opportunities
Internships and research projects with:
Industry (e.g. ConAgra)
Government (e.g. Congressional representatives)
Academia (e.g. NCFPD PIs)
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service
Training representative assists USDA FAS to deliver
food defense training to foreign food industry,
government, and academic personnel biannually
Workforce Development
Courses developed: 3
Food Defense in the Critical Infrastructure
Food Defense: Prepare, Respond, Recover
Food Defense Seminar
Academic Food Defense Certificate
Coming Spring 2015 (graduate or undergraduate)
Research areas of COE-supported students: 18 -
including Food Science, Biotechnology, Risk Comms,
Public Health, Industrial and Electrical Engineering
Student fellowships offered: 8 – KSU, NMS, UMN, VT
COE-supported students: Undergrads, Masters,
Doctorates
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NCFPD Education – Food Defense Curriculum
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Impact & Relevance
Provides first academic food defense certificate
Responds to domestic and international industry
requests for food defense training to increase awareness
of food defense
Meets education requirements identified in the 2011
Food Safety Modernization Act
Accessible
Nearly 400 downloads of curriculum guide
Summary video available in English and Spanish –
viewed 79 times in English and 22 times in Spanish
Description
Goal: Increase awareness and skills of working
professionals to defend the food system from intentional
adulteration through flexible and adaptable resources
Food Defense Curriculum Guide
Available since January 2013
Enables educators to incorporate cutting edge
research into food defense curricula across the Nation
Online Food Defense Certificate
Coming Summer 2014
To include 5 modules from Curriculum Guide
To be available online or in-person for public and private
sector training
Educational Capabilities & Opportunities
Food Defense Certificate:
Modules include learning outcomes, learning assessments and links to readings and resources
Components include Introduction to Food Defense and Global Impact, Policy and Regulation, Risk and Vulnerability,
Planning, and Your Role in Food Defense.
Available
Seminar: Four-hour training delivered in-person by team of food defense instructors
Online: 5 modules accessed online at learners convenience (Coming Summer 2014)
On campus collaborative exchange:
3-5 days of interactive food defense training by multidisciplinary team of experts
Daily application of skills learned
Tours of food industry facilities and their implementation of food defense
Currently being offered for public and private sector
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NCFPD Research and Education Successes
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Accomplishment Impact/End Users
Economically Motivated
Adulteration (EMA) research
Methodology for prospective monitoring of imports
Developed using retrospective analysis of import data for 63 Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) codes for food products
Transitioned two databases to identify testing methodologies and historic adulteration
events
Daily use by industry and regulatory agencies
Real-time Response to
Government Agency and
Industry Requests
100 requests for expertise to assess threat, incident, and response options in 2013
including:
DHS - Data analysis and assessment food imports from Syria
DHS - Assessment of impact of H7N9 influenza events in China
DHS - Expert and literature support to QHSR efforts to assess food threats
Congressional Research Service - Expert opinion and report development support
EMA Congressional Report
Private sector - NCFPD researcher Dr. Eric Johnson provided support to Fonterra due
to Clostridium botulinum concerns
4th Annual Food Defense
Collaborative Exchange –
Professional Development
Interdisciplinary learning experiences for professionals from government, industry, and
academia to increase knowledge and apply skills for improving the global food system
Participants include 15 countries - Argentina, Chile, China, Guatemala, India, Israel,
Jordan, Mexico, Peru, Philippians, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United States,
Vietnam
Animal Agriculture Emergency
Response Training (AAERT)
Describes curriculum and training needed across levels of responsibilities, positions
and jurisdictions
Outlines core competencies needed for emergencies impacting animal agriculture
Supports training and education of animal agriculture first responders (USDA, FDA,
DHS, state and local government officials)
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Supplemental Material
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NCFPD Partners
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Extended Partner Network
Non-University Partners: DHS CBP, OIP, OHA; FDA; USDA; CDC; Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N; OIE; World
Health Organization; U.S. Pharmecopeia; Multi-State Partnership for Security in Agriculture; Southern Agriculture and Animal
Disaster Response Alliance; Archer Daniels Midland Company; Cargill, Inc.; General Mills Inc.; McCormick & Company; Burger King
Corp; Coca Cola; Danisco USA, Inc.; Decisionanalysis Risk Consultants, Inc.; Ecolab; Fresh Express; Grocery Manufacturers
Association; Hormel Foods Corp; Institute of Food Technologists; International Food Information Council; Jack in the Box, Inc.;
Keystone Foods; Kraft Foods; Kroger Co.; Land O'Lakes, Inc.; Malt-O-Meal; McDonald’s; Restaurant Services, Inc.; Sara Lee;
Schwan Food Co.; Sodexho; SUPERVALU; Sysco; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
University Partners: Arizona State, Cornell, Harvard, Iowa State, Johns Hopkins, Louisiana State, Michigan State, New Mexico
State, North Carolina A & T State*, North Carolina State, Old Dominion, Purdue, St. Joseph’s, Texas A & M, Washington State,
Wayne State Universities, Universidad Austral de Chile, Universities of Arkansas, Ballarat, California-Davis, Georgia, Guelph, Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Maryland, Missouri, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Southern California, Surrey, Tennessee-Knoxville, Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-River Falls, Calvin College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
*Indicates MSIs
Principal Partners Areas of Expertise/Core Capabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology Systems strategies, risk and decision analysis, economic
assessment, consequences and resilience
Kansas State University Educational program development
Rutgers University Event modeling, risk communication
University of Kentucky Risk and crisis communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison Agent behavior
Illinois Institute of Technology Agent behavior
North Dakota State University Risk and crisis communication
Lawrence Livermore, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia National
Laboratories
Risk analysis, data analysis, modeling
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NCFPD Student Placements
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Placements Internships Jobs
DHS OHA, Los Alamos National Lab Los Alamos National Lab
Federal Government USDA, DOS FDA, US Senate Office (Bingaman, Udall)
State and Local Government California Department of Agriculture Kansas Department of Agriculture, New Mexico
Department of Homeland Security, Kansas
Department of Animal Health
Industry ConAgra, Cargill
Kellog Company, Monogram Foods, Phoenix
Children’s Hospital (infectious disease)
Academia University of Minnesota University of Michigan, University of Minnesota,
Harvard Kennedy School
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NCFPD Research Areas
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Research Area Approaches Expected Uses Customers COE Partners
1. Agent Behavior Agent behavior in food
systems
Sample preparation
techniques
Detection platforms for
microbes and chemicals
Isolation, detection and
prevention of contaminants
in the food supply
Inactivation,
decontamination and
disposal protocols for
contaminated food systems
DHS/FDA/USDA
State/local
laboratories
Food firms
Technology
providers to food
firms
Illinois Institute of
Technology
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
University of
Guelph
Fonterra
2. Event Modeling Computer-based
contamination
simulation
Piloting food product
tracing
Monitoring open source
data
Horizon scanning
Preparedness, and
mitigation strategy
assessment for food system
events
Decision support from local
to firm to national level in
the face of food system
events
State authorities
DHS/FDA/USDA
Food firms
Risk Sciences
International
Institute of Food
Technologists
Rutgers University
3. Systems
Strategies
Risk and vulnerability
assessments of food
supply chains and
related systems
Prioritized interventions and
countermeasures based on
their economic utility
State authorities
Food firms
Georgia Institute of
Technology
New Mexico
Consortium
4. Risk and Crisis
Communication
Surveys on food
terrorism
Risk message
development
Media assessments
Active engagement of
multiple audiences in
effective risk
communications
CDC/FDA/USDA
State/local
authorities
Food firms
Rutgers University
North Dakota State
University
University of
Kentucky
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NCFPD Highlights
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Accomplishment Impact
Attendance for the Center’s “Research in Food Defense
Webinar Series” has totaled more than 3,000 food system
stakeholders since 2009
These NCFPD activities provide awareness and knowledge
to build a robust network of professionals to mitigate risks
and vulnerabilities in the food system
Developed and prototyped a comprehensive, systematic
process for monitoring potential food systems risks and
identifying adverse food events though data fusion and
analytics (Focused Integration of Data for Early Signals –
FIDES)
FIDES produced real-time assessments available to USDA,
FDA and 5 food firms. Assessments included but were not
limited to analysis on adulterations, policy changes,
consequences of natural disasters. Beta users noted that
the capability provided information that assisted in meeting
their mission
Develop and pilot a capability for accessing detailed data
from firms on product sourcing starting at retail and moving
back and then forward again in the supply chain for a set of
products before they are explicitly linked to an outbreak in
order to accelerate the outbreak investigation through the
traceback/traceforward
Protocol and methodology may rapidly identify key data
elements and suspect foods during an outbreak in situations
where foods have been linked
Transition Planning and Implementation Transition plan developed and implemented post mid-term
review. Resulted in review of 106 closed research projects
for transition feasibility, created process for competitive
transition funding (4 project selected for next year), and
established three mechanisms for technology and tool
transition to marketplace (UMN external sales, institute, and
UMN Office of Technology and Commercialization start-up)
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NCFPD Highlights
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Accomplishment Impact
Developed a new version of the North American Animal
Disease Spread Model (NAADSM) that offers new capability
for disease spread modeling that is freely available to the
public
Provided USDA Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health
both new model and a response to a potential (Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza) HPAI outbreak in the U.S to
include scenario files, the disease spread parameters,
documentation, and justifications which will be made
available to other researchers
Redesigned public-facing HSUP websites for each COE as
well as for the general HSUP project portal, redesigned
User Interface within the secure collaboration portal, and
developed a rewritten COE project reporting system
Redesign will greatly improve the user interface and
reporting capabilities for COEs and DHS OUP. The new
reporting system will allow all users to rapidly identify and
retrieve COE projects. Newly developed project reporting
system will improve data supporting search function in
project database
In 2012, NCFPD created a Single Sign On (SSO) capability
across all portals which allows members of multiple portals
to manage one profile. Activities on the system are
expanding beyond the United States food supply and
support international efforts to protect the global food chain
Continued development and operation of CoreSHIELD
provides a web based system to over 5,500 users and 669
active working groups to share information, public health
issues, and food concerns. The information sharing
environment overcomes many of the barriers presented by
proprietary systems run by a single agency or state
NCFPD designed Food and Agriculture Readiness
Measurement (FARM) Toolkit to assess state government
preparedness in the event of a food emergency. Tool has
undergone beta tests with 10 state participants (WA, NC,
GA, IA, MN, OK, CO, FL, MI) and will be rolled out Spring
2013
FARM identifies areas of strength and opportunities for
improvement within each state through a comprehensive
survey to improve state and federal food emergency
preparedness. NCFPD anticipates all 50 states and a
number of local users to use FARM