Federal and State Partnership Announces Model Food Emergency Plan
From the March 3, 2006 Constituent Update
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The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA), in cooperation with FSIS, the Food and
Drug Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, announced the availability of a model food emergency
response plan template.
The template addressed the goal of enhancing the protection of the U.S. agricultural industry and food security
through increased prevention, detection, response and recovery planning.
A food emergency could occur at any point from farm-to-fork, including pre-harvest production, processing and
distribution. A food-related emergency involves the unintentional or deliberate contamination, threatened or actual,
of food that impacts or might impact human health. A food emergency response plan applies to food emergencies that
might involve a number of localities or states.
The template is designed to assist states with developing a food emergency response plan. It identifies how state
efforts will be integrated with the National Response Plan by utilizing National Incident Management System principles
during a large-scale food emergency response, as well as how they will integrate with local emergency response plans.
The template will also assist states with the development of either a stand-alone emergency response plan for responding
to a food-related emergency or an addendum to an existing all-hazard state emergency response plan.
The model food emergency response plan template is available on NASDA's
Web site at http://www2.nasda.org/NR/rdonlyres/2EC4F1B6-9732
-4187-8A1D-7024C6818CBE/858/
NASDAFoodPlanTemplate020906.pdf (PDF Only).
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