Robert Norton is chair of the Auburn University Food System Institute’s Food and Water Defense Working Group, Auburn, Ala., and is a long-time consultant to the U.S. military and federal and state law enforcement agencies.
The cold food industry must pay special attention to the evolving security requirements related to critical assets, starting first with limiting access to refrigeration plant areas.
A robust food defense plan has to include strategies and tactics to detect the full spectrum of adversaries, from employees who are motivated by criminal intent or revenge and wish to do harm to the company all the way to nation states.
