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    PrintNational Security Memorandum on Strengthening the Security and Resilience of United States Food and Agriculture

The National Security Memorandum on Strengthening the Security and Resilience of United States Food and Agriculture is a plan for federal government agencies, working with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, along with the private sector, to continue their collaboration on ensuring the nation’s food and agricultural sectors are secure and resilient against domestic and global threats. These include intentional adulteration, catastrophic events, such as pandemics that impact critical infrastructure and essential workforce, consequences of climate change, and those in the cyber domain due to interconnected cyber-physical systems and intellectual property theft.

Vulnerability Assessments

FDA conducts vulnerability assessments (VA) on food systems to identify, quantify and prioritize (or rank) the vulnerabilities in a system.

Food and Agriculture Sector and other Related Activities

Protecting the critical infrastructure and key resources of the United States–from both deliberate terrorist attack and destructive natural events - is essential to the Nation's security, public health, safety and economic vitality.

National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy (NAFDS)

The National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy (108) charts a direction for how the federal agencies, in cooperation with SLTT governments and private sector partners, protect the nation’s food supply against intentional adulteration.

Food Defense Field Assignments

Food Defense related FDA field activities designed as a proactive effort to prepare for the protection of food during special security events.

Special Event Food Defense Assignment (SEFDA) Report
	March 2013
	Special Event Food Defense Assignment (SEFDA) Report
	September 2008
	Protein Surveillance Assignment (PSA) Summary Report
	June 2008
	Food Defense Surveillance Assignment (FDSA) Summary Report
	November 2007
	Summary Report: FDA Security Surveillance Assignment; October - November 2004
	December 2005Other Related Resources

Food Defense Training & Education
	Food Defense Tools
	Economically Motivated Adulteration (Food Fraud)
	Prior Notice of Imported Foods
	International Cooperation on Food Safety
	Food Emergency Response Network (FERN)**Contact Us**

For general food defense information, please email fooddefense@fda.hhs.gov

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