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109th AFDO Annual Conference
Food Security Tabletop
Exercise (TTX)
The Westin Crown Center
Kansas City, MO
June 7, 2005
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“For the life of me, I cannot understand why
the terrorists have not attacked our food
supply because it is so easy to do…”
Tommy Thompson
Secretary of Health and Human Services
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- Overview -
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Food Supply Chain
Product
Harvested or
Imported
Storage
and
Inventory
Transport
to Retail
Storage
Inspection
and
Inventory
Inspection
Inspection
Transportation
to
Processing Facility
Storage
Transport
and
to Distributor Inventory
Storage
and
Inventory
Sale
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Processing
and
packaging
Table
and
Consumption
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Exercise Challenges
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Simulate real world (terrorist) situations in an
informal but structured forum.
Stimulate discussion of various issues
regarding an imposed hypothetical situation.
Stress and discuss existing plans, policies,
and procedures.
Assess needs of the business to guide the
prevention, response to, and recovery from
the “defined event.”
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Why a Food Security TTX?
 Most businesses do not have an emergency or
recovery plan even though they know it is important
 47% of businesses that experience a fire or major
theft go out of business within two years
 44% of companies that lose records in a disaster
never resume business
 93% of companies that experience a significant data
loss are out of business within five years
 The majority of businesses spend less than 3% of
their total budget on business recovery planning
(Source: Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and Private Partnership)
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The Big Picture
 These TTXs take the business point of view
of a Food Security incident:
- To minimize suffering, loss of life, and personal injury
- To minimize damage to property
- To minimize disaster-related service disruption which would
have an adverse impact on the business, its reputation, and
brand
- To maintain tax revenue for local communities
 This TTX demonstrates a partnership
between the public and private sectors
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Emergency Management
Cycle
 Planning: Human, financial, facilities,
communications, transportation, media,
incident management, etc.
 Prevention: Actions taken to discover,
identify, and prevent an incident
 Response: Actions taken to contain, control,
and reduce the impact of the incident
 Recovery: Actions taken to expeditiously
restore operations to a normal state
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- Baxter’s, Inc. TTX -
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Goal of TTX
Baxter’s goal is to enable the government
and industry to work better together to
prevent, detect, respond to, and recover
from a terrorist attack on the food supply.
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TTX Objectives
 To exercise all of the Baxter’s, Inc. companies'
procedures and test the Crisis Teams by simulating an
incident of intentional food contamination
 To demonstrate how local, state, and federal agencies
interact when faced with such an incident
 To demonstrate how local, state, and federal agencies
collaborate and communicate with Baxter’s, Inc. in
such an incident, through planning, prevention,
response, and recovery
 To identify and document gaps in the above processes
 Recommend improvements, actions, and transferrable
best practices in After Action Report
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The TTX in Context
In conjunction with a comprehensive
program, including:
– After Action Report
• Suggesting changes to policies, plans, and procedures
• Improving coordination and communications with local,
state, and national organizations
• Identifying gaps in resources
– Training/info tool to heighten the
awareness of food security issues
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SAC
 The Steering Advisory Committee
(SAC) is the board of senior advisers to
the development team to ensure the
TTX is relevant to the needs of Baxter’s
and to the expanded needs of the food
industry in general
 SAC members are listed in the Situation
Manual
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Stakeholders
Stakeholders are individuals and organizations whose
interests may be affected by a terrorist incident in the
food supply, including:
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Providers of the raw materials
Transportation nodes
Warehouse and distribution nodes
Retail establishments
Federal, state, and local law enforcement and emergency
management teams
– Federal, state, and local regulators
– Interested associations
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- Today’s Exercise -
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Agenda
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
2:15 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:15 pm
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2:00 pm
2:15 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:15 pm
5:00 pm
TTX Background
Emergency Management Overview
Seminar Overview
Module 1
Break
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Hotwash
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TTX Structure
 This seminar is multimedia-driven and facilitated.
 Four distinct modules representing significant periods
in the response.
 Each module begins with a multimedia update,
summarizing the key events occurring within that time
period.
 Following the updates, participants will review the
situation and engage in a group discussion of
appropriate response issues.
 Participants will then take part in a facilitated caucus
discussion where they will present their group’s
actions based on the scenario and discuss their
interactions with other agencies.
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Scenario
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Module 1:
Module 2:
Module 3:
Module 4:
General Threat
Incident
Response
Recovery and Reconstitution
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Tables
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Retail
Clients
Suppliers
Local
State
Federal
Media
Epi
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Roles
 Participants respond to the situations as presented
based on experience and knowledge.
 Observers may support the participants in the group
as they develop responses to the situation. However,
they are primarily invited to observe.
 Facilitators provide situation updates and moderate
group discussions..
 Scribes take notes.
 Table Reporters, after discussions about each
module at their respective tables, report on their
discussions to the entire group.
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- Epidemiology Parallel Exercise -
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Epi Investigation
Parallel Exercise
“Investigating a Foodborne Outbreak Associated
with the Intentional Contamination of the Food
Supply”
The goal of this portion of the exercise is to better
prepare health, regulatory, laboratory, and law
enforcement agencies to detect, investigate, and
respond to a foodborne outbreak caused by the
intentional contamination of a food product.
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Epi Investigation
Objectives
 Examine the procedures for preventing, detecting,
responding to, and recovering from a criminal/terrorist
attack on the food supply on the part of health,
regulator, laboratory, and law enforcement agencies
 Exercise the interactions between health, regulatory,
laboratory, and law enforcement agencies during
emergency response efforts
 Identify potential gaps in communication between
involved agencies
 Identify resources needed to effectively respond to a
large foodborne outbreak
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- Your Final Instructions -
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TTX Assumptions
In any exercise, a number of assumptions and
artificialities may be necessary to complete the
discussion within the time allotted. During this seminar,
the following apply:
 There is no “hidden agenda,” nor are there any trick
questions intended to mislead participants.
 All participants receive information at the same time.
 Participants should assume all organizations are
implementing their current plans, procedures, and protocols.
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TTX Guidelines
 This is not a test. Varying viewpoints, even
disagreements, are expected. This is intended to be
an open, low-stress environment.
 The seminar setting is the ideal opportunity to
consider different approaches and suggest
improvements to current resources plans, and
training.
 Responses should be based on current capabilities
(i.e., you may use only existing abilities and assets).
 You are not “stuck” in your group. Feel free to
interact with other agency representatives to get
answers when needed.
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And Finally…
 Questions in the Situation Manual are
for guidance only
 Let the discussion flow naturally
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“Think about it. A major disruption of the food supply
would be more devastating than an oil embargo and it
would be totally unexpected and unprecedented.
Americans are so used to finding supermarket shelves
stocked with food that they wouldn’t know what to do if
our corn, wheat and soybean crops were destroyed.
These commodities are used in so many food products,
and to feed livestock, that there wouldn’t be much to eat
without them.”
Stewart Truelsen, American Farm Bureau Federation
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