Front-Line Employee's Role in Food Defense

Why is food defense important to you, as a front-line employee?

The primary purpose of food defense measures is to protect the food from intentional adulteration and to provide you, your family, and your community with safe food. In addition to protecting the public, food defense also protects your work environment, your company and its reputation, and your job. A successful intentional adulteration can result in illnesses, death, and psychological and economic damage that can extend far beyond the point of the adulteration and the people who became ill. Your role in protecting the food supply against intentional adulteration can prevent these wide scale consequences. Select the situations below for real-life instances of intentional adulteration and its impact.

• Local illness/recall Local consumer illnesses and costs to the firm to recall the contaminated product. Learn More »
• Insider attack/widespread illness A contract worker at a Japanese food facility intentionally contaminates frozen foods with malathion. Learn More »
• Fear/closure/job loss Community fear causing anxiety and loss of consumer confidence that could lead to closure of the facility and subsequent loss of jobs. Learn More »