FOOD SAFETY

Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 96 provides guidance to food businesses of all sizes and at all points in the food supply chain – from farm to fork. It provides guidance on approaches to the protection of business from all forms of malicious attack including ideologically motivated attack and the procedures to mitigate and minimize the impact of such an attack.
PAS 96:2010 Defending food and drink provides guidance and good practice for food businesses of all sizes and at all points in the supply chain. It is intended to be of particular use to managers of small and medium sized food enterprises who may not have access to specialist advice.
The food and drink industry is naturally vulnerable to attack but highly resilient. The main generic threats are malicious contamination with toxic materials, sabotage of the supply chain and misuse of food and drink materials for terrorist or criminal purposes. A successful attack could disrupt business and undermine brands, and could lead to illness and death. Even the threat of an attack could be problematic.
Reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience can be achieved by greater control of access to materials, processes, services and premises, and by undertaking regular review, and this revised edition of PAS96 offers guidance on deterring, detecting and defeating malicious attack on food and drink supplies.
Food businesses will be able to use the guidance in the context of an effective food safety management regime such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) or the Red Tractor. This PAS assumes and builds on effective operation of such protocols.
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Contents of PAS 96 include:

• Rationale and purpose
• Introduction
• Scope
• Terms and definitions
• Malicious, ideologically motivated threats to food and food supply
• Broad themes of food defence
• Presumptions
• Threat Assessment Critical Control Point “TACCP”
• Assessing the threat
• Assuring personnel security
• Controlling access to premises
• Controlling access to services
• Secure storage of transport vehicles
• Controlling access to materials
• Controlling access to processes
• Contingency planning for recovery from attack
• Audit and review of food defence procedures
• Organization of some key sources of advice and information
• Guidance for specific parts of the food and drink supply chain
• Defending food: A food and drink defence checklist
• Bibliography