Entries Tagged as 'NCFPD'

Oct 15

Food defense knowledge & skills survey - participation request

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Researchers from three National Center for Food Protection & Defense institutions are conducting an important survey to identify the knowledge and skills needed by a food defense professional.  Please consider participating in this important effort.  The full survey announcement follows.

Dear Colleagues with Expertise in Food Defense and Protection:

Researchers from Purdue University, Kansas State University (KSU), and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis are collaborating on a grant that focuses on studying how to effectively educate professionals in the area of food defense and protection.  More specifically, we are trying to identify knowledge and skills that are needed by a food defense professional, and core competencies that would be required to create a model food defense curriculum.  Through this letter, we are asking for your help and expert opinion as we develop this curriculum.


We invite you to participate in an educational survey that will help us better identify specific knowledge areas and skills needed by a food defense professional.  Your responses to the questions in the survey will assist us in the development of the curriculum for graduate students, as well as help us create an educational outreach program for working professionals.  We are seeking your input via an electronic survey, accessible at the following link.


http://www.cfse.purdue.edu/survey/
Survey Code:  FOOD


We recognize that your time is limited and valuable; as a token of our appreciation for your assistance, all participants will have the opportunity to enter a random drawing to win one of three $75 gift certificates.


Be assured that all responses to this survey will remain confidential; participant names or identifying information will not be used in any reports developed from this data.  Participation in this survey is strictly voluntary, you need not answer every question, and you may withdraw at any time.  The survey instrument and data analysis are being led by researchers at KSU; this survey protocol has been reviewed and approved by the KSU Institutional Review Board (KSU IRB #4770; questions regarding IRB review can be directed to the KSU Associate Vice Provost for Research Compliance, 785-532-3224). For additional information about the overall aspects of the project, contact Dr. Richard Linton, PI, at Purdue University (linton@purdue.edu).


We appreciate your time and help with this important project!

Dr. Richard Linton                    Dr. David McSwane                 Dr. Kelly Getty
Purdue University                     Indiana University                   Kansas State University

(For questions regarding this message or the survey link, please contact Dr. Abbey Nutsch, Kansas State University)

Mar 12

FAS-CAT System

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FoodSHIELD is proud to host access to a new system release from the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). 

FAS-CAT stands for Food Agriculture Sector Criticality Assessment Tool.  This tool is an advanced Excel application that helps identify critical assets in the food and agriculture sector and provide reporting mechanisms to Homeland Security.

Its objectives are:

  • Improve the overall process for food and agriculture critical system/sub-system identification
  • Provide greater equity in cross sector critical system identification for DHS
  • Enable the states to identify critical food and agriculture system components
  • Provide a common methodology to the process
  • Improve critical asset reporting to Homeland Security

For those requiring access to this tool, the Excel Application and PDF guidance document are available from either FoodSHIELD or NCFPD's home pages.   The Video Tutorial that walks you through a demo of the tool is also available at those locations.