Food Safety and Food Security features articles from theWiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security covering topics related to processing and packaging methods to protect food supply against contamination and to mitigate the consequences of contaminated foods. It discusses related detection systems as well as decontamination and disposal of contaminated foods.

John G Voeller is Senior Vice President, Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Black and Veatch, the largest privately held engineering company in the United States. He has served as Technical Leader, Chemical, for the Biological, Radiological Technology Alliance (CBRTA), working on advanced technology to deal with terrorist threats with 13 major companies. He has also served as chairman of ASME's Critical Asset Protection Initiative, leading eight teams of world experts in developing industry's agenda for homeland security needs as well as planning first responder actions and risk analysis of terrorist and catastrophic incidents.

Preface vii

1. Microbiological Detectors for Food Safety Applications 1

2. Processing and Packaging that Protects the Food Supply Against Intentional Contamination 27

3. Early Detection and Diagnosis of High-Consequence Plant Pests in the United States 43

4. The Role of Food Safety in Food Security 61

5. Decontamination and Disposal of Contaminated Foods 69

6. Pulsenet: A Program to Detect and Track Food Contamination Events 83

7. Insects as Vectors of Foodborne Pathogens 97

8. Farm Level Control of Foreign Animal Disease and Food-borne Pathogens 111

9. Potential for Human Illness from Animal Transmission of Food-borne Pathogens 133

10. Mitigating Consequences of Pathogen Inoculation into Processed Food 149

Index 157