Food defence system in food industry: perspective of the EU countries

Bogadi, Nina Puhač; Banović, Mara; Babić, Ivona

doi:10.1007/s00003-016-1022-8

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“…Essentially, industrial espionage is the use of espionage or spying techniques often focused on commercial rivals for commercial purposes e.g. seeking to access trade secrets, intellectual property (IP) such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, recipes, product formulations, theories, software, processing techniques, designs or data that could impact brand value for commercial advantage (Crane, 2005;Bogadi, Banović, & Babić, 2016). e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Industrial Biosciences stealing information about the manufacturing process for titanium dioxide, an ingredient used in the food industry and then selling the information on to a Chinese chemical company (O'Halloran, 2014;Bogadi, Banović, & Babić, 2016); stealing the blueprints of the British Cartwright power loom (Fan, Jun, & Wolfstetter, 2016), an attempt to steal the blueprints for the Intel Pentium processor by an employee (van Arnam, 2001); smuggling of silkworms from China 1500 years ago and stealing of IP around porcelain (van Arnam, 2001); and theft of IP surrounding tea production in China (Budiono, & Sawitri, 2017;Fan, Jun, & Wolfstetter, 2017).…”

Section: Historical Examples Of Industrial Espionage Include: Two Empmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hackers, via security weaknesses, deface or disable web sites, attack networks, or disrupt programmes by adding code that is then used to gain access to more sensitive data (van Arnam, 2001). The most common reasons for an individual(s) to hack a given companies is to attempt to reduce the business efficiency of food companies as well as to enable data theft (Bogadi, Banović, & Babić, 2016). Hacktivists undertake cyber-attacks that are ideologically or politically motivated e.g.…”

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Food defence: Refining the taxonomy of food defence threats

Manning

2019

Trends in Food Science & Technology

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Background Awareness of the need to address food defence is gaining pace in the food industry. Indeed implementing an effective food defence strategy is a key prerequisite to comply with third party certification standards. There is however a knowledge gap with regard to the types of threat that fall within the scope of a food defence strategy and also how these issues can then be mitigated and where possible eliminated. Scope and Approach This research seeks to position food defence as a supply chain risk mitigation strategy and use case studies of real-world issues to frame the taxonomy of food defence threats. Key findings In order to differentiate food defence threats (food attack) from wider food crime, the research postulates that food defence strategies needs to address intentional adulteration to gain personal attention, to gain financial reward through extortion or to gain attention for a particular cause or ideology i.e. food terrorism. More covert threats include sabotage, espionage, intellectual property theft, and cybercrime, including hacktivism. These threats can cause actual harm to individuals, members of certain populations and communities or to organisations. This can lead to large scale, economic, political or social unrest and disruption of the supply chain and thus fit within the scope of food defence activities. To inform food defence risk assessment and management processes, this taxonomy needs to be developed and accepted across the food industry so that threats can be consistently and effectively addressed and as a result consumers, industry partners, shareholders and also the organisation itself can be protected.

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Food defence: Refining the taxonomy of food defence threats

Manning

2019

Trends in Food Science & Technology

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“…Food processing includes milling, smoking, baking, air-drying, freeze-drying, blanching, jellying, freezing, fermentation, preserving in salt, sugar, alcohol or olive oil, pickling, and canning. All of the ingredients entering the food processing phase must have clear traceability (certificate standards) during admission (53).…”

Section: Food Processingmentioning

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“…Company crisis management or company security management involves an expert for security and protection, fire protection, occupational safety, quality management system, food safety system, information security system. Most of the food industry is familiar with crisis management or risk management systems (ISO 31000: 2009) (60), and they already estimate risks through quality management and food safety systems (53).…”

Section: Threat Assessment Of Critical Control Points (Taccp) In the mentioning

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Food defence systems as an answer to food terrorism

Jurica

Vrdoljak²,

Karačonji

2019

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Terrorist attacks on critical infrastructures can cause problems to a national stability and functioning. Food and water supply chains are some of the most important infrastructures, and it is the country’s (government’s) obligation to provide sufficient quantities of food and water to its population. Intentional food contamination can, among other motives, originate from an act of terrorism (with political or ideological motives) with the aim of causing fear (terror) among people. Food defence systems can help assess vulnerabilities, determine mitigation strategies for terrorist attack, estimate risks, and prevent a terrorist attack. Risk assessment and prevention also include control over the production and distribution of potential chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) agents or their related materials. When a terrorist attack occurs, rapid and organised response is essential in terms of determining the type of agent used, managing the diseased, ensuring the functioning of the food and water supply, and the recovery of the infrastructure system under attack. Food defence planning as part of a food counterterrorism strategy should include considerations regarding the global food market and the fact that ingredients are supplied from all over the world (vendor certificates). Preventing terrorist attacks on sources of food and water is a far better option than crisis management once an attack had already been committed, but governments should have a response to any scenario.

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