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Securing the feed and food supply chain from bio- and agroterrorism - economic assessment of bio- and agroterrorist attacks and prevention measures
Project
Project code: TI-BW-08-PID1490
Contract period: 01.02.2011
- 31.12.2013
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
How high is the risk of a bio- or agroterrorist act for companies in the dairy and beef industry? How high are the costs of taking prevention measures and what economic consquences would such an act have for a company? Bio- and agroterrorism can have serious health and economic consequences and are increasingly seen as a risk to food safety. This is also reflected in the current version of the international standard IFS (International Food Standard). Here, under the term 'food defense' the protection of food from deliberate contamination, and thus terrorist acts, has been added in binding form. This addition requires those companies, that want to be certified according to IFS, to carry out vulnerability analyses and to assess the threat of deliberate contamination. For example, i) the potential health and economic consequences of a deliberate contamination must be assessed, ii) whether and how access possibilities of the company can be checked and iii) the time needed to restore the 'normal' level of production in the event of a bio- or terrorist act. This should detect and minimize weak points and risks.The aim of our project was to assess the costs and benefits of prevention measures and the possible economic impacts of bio- and agroterrorist acts. We first analysed i) the theoretical and empirical research developments with regard to economic evaluations of (deliberate) contaminations in the food supply chain and ii) corresponding institutional frameworks. Based on this, we have looked at the possible economic consequences of bio- and agroterrorist acts. In particular, we considered the costs and benefits associated with prevention measures and intervention measures in selected companies of the dairy and beef industry in Germany. We conducted qualitative interviews with experts from the dairy and beef industry.
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Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
- Business administration
