Overview of FDA's Food Defense Activities - Food and Drug Law ...

13Private Sector Response2010 - Peter Hayes, Frito Lay, Senior Group Manager, Manufacturingoperations Support and Food Security:‣ “We recognize we can never make the system bulletproof, but our jobis to mitigate 90 percent of the risks and a lot of that is aboutperception,”‣ The key to improving food defense is to remain vigilant, said Hayes.“We understand a lot of this infrastructure was created in the shadowof 9/11 and there were a lot of knee-jerk reactions,” he said. “We haveto make sure [our systems] are relevant to the risks of today and thatwe use the information we have to identify new threats - that’s key forus.”25Source: Stelter Leischen,”Food Defense: How Frito LayProtects Its Supply Chain, Security Director News, May 2010INSCATECH Copyright 2012Private Sector Response2011 – Quotes Provided by Security Director of MajorGlobal CPG Company:‣ …as the substantial effects are connected more tothe spreading of the news rather than to thematerial damages that the event causes, thevictims usually tend to keep the tampering caseswrapped up in the greatest secrecy, whenever thisis possible. It is therefore generally acknowledgedby analysts that the news leaking out is just a sortof tip of the iceberg of a phenomenon which isquite more frequent than one might think.‣ …the main tool to fight against tampering forterrorist purposes is the intelligence andoperational activity carried out by secret services.26INSCATECH Copyright 2012