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

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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