Programs
Food Protection Risk Management Consulting, Products, Testing and Training
Food-Defense, L.L.C., and its professional partners believe prevention is better than consequence response. Our unique portfolio of food safety and food defense (food protection) consulting services combined with cutting-edge technology products offer a singular “all-hazards” management system. This core capability delivers applicable knowledge necessary to meet complex challenges of system failures, whether accidental or intentional, to food suppliers, producers, processors, distributors, retailers and regulatory agencies. The result of this food protection problem solving system is a safer, more secure global food supply for consumers.
• Consulting – Risk management solutions for your specific requirements are formed by partnerships with many of the world’s leading food safety, food defense, information technology and academic institutions. We focus on the complexity of process business and operational systems in managing high risk foods and evolving, adaptive threat environments. Unexamined vulnerabilities in food production and supply chain systems can quickly result in failures and overwhelming damage. Food Defense provides clients with the direction and assistance necessary for the prevention of system failures and the most immediate, efficient, and effective responses to negative events.
• Products – Advanced, cutting-edge, data collection and process evaluation, risk assessment and decision-making hardware and software products are available from our partners to support food protection requirements for our clients.
• Testing- Food-Defense, LLC is a recognized FDA and USDA process authority. Our partners can provide process authority services for prevention and response that covers food safety prevention and response. These expert services include:
- process establishment for low-acid and acidified shelf stable foods using thermal and non-thermal sterilization or pasteurization techniques,
- in-plant pilot and production equipment,
- new or existing FDA and USDA inspected products,
- process deviation evaluation,
- recall and food emergency management,
- facility registrations
- process filings and other regulatory assistance
- domestic and international firm compliance with the new requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011.
• Training – We provide on-site and interactive web-based training within a very different cost-effective risk management process framework. By understanding the political, business, regulatory and consumer environments, we have structured our food protection programs principally around existing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), their prerequisite programs and a HACCP-like food defense system on the same platform.
Food-Defense, LLC understands that many food safety and food defense critical nodes are the same. Hazards and threats can be managed together. System hazard and threat identification, assessment, audit, control, monitoring and verification are all incorporated onto one shared platform. Clients gain both a competitive and cost-efficient edge in protecting business assets using a singular tool.
Food-Defense, LLC plans along with our partner products provide an enhanced, real-world training experience focused on specific client food safety and food defense applications. These education and training programs are designed to meet needs of any size, type and location along the global supply-chain.
Case studies and exercises based upon knowledge gained from past events are provided to the student. An emphasis on what could have been done to prevent the food protection failure is emphasized. Students must engage with the instruction and teaching challenges presented. Real-world course scenarios used in Food-Defense, LLC training is quickly evolving, requiring and stressing student command, control, effective communication and leadership.
Whether consulting, training, or providing quintessential risk management software and hardware products, Food Defense and its partners stand ready to serve client needs today. We offer the most comprehensive and technologically-advanced total food protection programs available. Try a different way at looking at old problems: contact Food-Defense, LLC.