Food Defense

Question 1

What is the difference between food safety and food defense?

Answer 1

Food safety prevents unintentional adulteration of food and food defense prevents intentional adulteration of food

Question 2

What kinds of attacks would be categorized as agroterrorism?

Answer 2

1. Direct attacks on livestock
2. Direct attacks on animal feed ingredients or water supply
3. Direct attacks on the food water supply
4. Cyber-attacks to adulterate food supply
5. Cyber attacks on import inspection programs
6. Cyber-attacks to imply disease or food supply

Question 3

How much of the US food supply is imported?

Answer 3

15%

Question 4

Who would be someone willing to attempt agroterrorism (biggest offenders)?

Answer 4

Anyone with an “axe” to grind
Disgruntled employees
Lone wolf
Domestic Terrorist Organizations
Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Question 5

What do the letters of CARVER in CARVER + Shock stand for?

Answer 5

C- Criticality
A- Accessibility
R- Recuperability
V- Vulnerability
E- Effect
R- Recognizability

Question 6

What is the “shock” part of CARVER + Shock method?

Answer 6

The combined health, economic, and psychological impacts of an attack

Question 7

What are the steps to the CARVER + Shock method?

Answer 7

1. Establish assessment parameters
2. Assemble a team of experts to conduct assessment
3. Develop process flow charts, sub-process, and nodes
4. Score and rank
5. Develop mitigation strategies