Agriculture and Food Protection Against Terrorists 1.) Protecting the American food supply from terrorist attacks or natural contamination is a difficult task.
The FDA and USDA have the primary responsibilities. These two organizations have made significant changes since 9/11 to protect the food supply chain, but we still have experienced major incidents involving the contamination or adulteration of various food products or ingredients at various points in the supply chain, resulting in recalls, public health harms, litigation, and loss of consumer confidence. If you were a senior advisor in the Trump Administration, what would you recommend to the president for making these two government agencies more effective and proactive (rather than reactive) in protecting our food system? Should those functions or relevant USDA and FDA units or divisions be merged under DHS, or perhaps CDC, or in some other organizational arrangement? Provide some research or evidence to support your opinion.
