Food Protection Solutions

The safety and wholesomeness of the food we eat every day depends on reliable protection from both unintentional and intentional contamination. From the farm to the table, SAIC delivers solutions that help the public and private sectors safeguard our nation's food supply.

Food Safety and Defense Services

SAIC's experience with best management practices across a broad array of industries can help the food sector identify, prevent, and manage food supply chain risks. SAIC offers:

Food Defense Services

  • Risk and vulnerability assessments of processes, facilities, and supply chains
  • Risk management solutions
  • Food defense plans
  • Food defense training
  • Independent assessment of audit requirements
  • Emergency response plan development and implementation
  • Emergency response exercises

Food Safety Services

  • High-risk product determinations
  • Risk-based food safety plans
  • Statistical process control
  • Foodborne illness attribution determinations
  • Sampling program design
  • Data mining and analysis for risk determinations

SAIC's Risk-Based Food Protection Solutions

Our Food Protection Solutions apply SAIC's domain knowledge to your specific needs. SAIC risk-based solutions are tailored, cost-effective and support the development of a single risk management program that is responsive to all of your requirements, whether they are driven internally or by customers, insurers, or legislation.

Keeping Your Business Compliant

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama in January 2011. FSMA improves the safety of the U.S. food supply by focusing on the prevention of food contamination rather than responding to contamination after the fact. Three important parts of the law that affect public and private sector stakeholders are as follows:

  • Section 103: Hazard Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls
  • Section 106: Protection Against Intentional Adulteration
  • Section 108: National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy

Section 103 expands the requirements for firms to identify, analyze and document hazards and risks across the entire food supply chain. Companies are required to develop, document and deploy measures to reduce the risk from identified and "reasonable foreseeable hazards". In addition, companies must implement a supply chain-wide monitoring system to verify controls and protective measures and detect failures.

Section 106 requires companies to develop and deploy plans, processes and protocols to protect against intentional adulteration, to monitor their supply chain, and to comply with the standards, protocols and provisions forthcoming from FDA. Compliance will allow companies to assess the risk of product adulteration and establish the capability to anticipate and defend against this threat.

Section 108 states that companies need to prepare food defense plans in accordance with the National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy to be established by FDA.

FSMA Legislation Resources

For more information and updates on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), please read the following articles:

Why SAIC?

Since 2002, SAIC has supported government agencies responsible for protecting the safety of the food supply chain. We have worked on all of the elements of food defense described in Homeland Security Presidential Directive-9 (HSPD-9) and the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. Our ongoing work in food safety includes data analysis in support of risk-based inspection and foodborne illness attribution determinations.

SAIC's risk-based solutions are tailored, cost-effective and support the development of a single risk management program that is responsive to all of your requirements, whether they are driven internally or by customers, insurers, or FSMA.