Vedpal Yadav
Government Polytechnic, Hisar, Haryana
Title: Food Defense- Another new jargon or a new era in food protection
Biography
Biography: Vedpal Yadav
Abstract
Food defense is the protection of food products from intentional contamination or adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents. It addresses additional concerns including physical, personnel, and operational security. Along with protecting the food system, food defense also deals with prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery from intentional acts of adulteration. From the history of intentional food contamination, a lot of lessons are to be learnt and strategies are to be evolved and implemented for safer food supply from farm to fork. Different types of threat agents are to be understood in detail to find out precise and accurate measures for their control in food defense related issues. Different challenges in food defense measures like food supply chain complexity, resource constraints, industrial scale spread, etc. are discussed and resolved for effective food defense system. The roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders involved including the food industry, academia, and government regulators and law enforcement is to be established. Collaboration of these agencies is the need of the hour as food defense issue is not an issue related to any agency in solitude but can be resolved by all agencies in cohesion. Different tools used in risk assessment, food defense plan building, and system surveillance are discussed. Several strategies to enforce already implemented plans and systems are discussed to make our food supply food defense ready.