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Food Defence: The Securitisation of the Food Supply [PDF]

Contexto Internacional
The notion of food defence emerged in the USA following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, reflecting the idea that the food sector constitutes a critical infrastructure for national security and that the food system must be defended against ...
Elaine Leão Inácio de Melo Andrade, Gilberto Carvalho de Oliveira, Otniel Freitas-Silva   +2 more
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Critical monitoring and control factors for achieving food defense criteria

Risk Analysis, Volume 45, Issue 8, Page 2427-2441, August 2025.
Abstract Food can be contaminated by physical, chemical, biological, and radiological hazards. Industry and regulatory agencies have developed the Food Safety Management System, based on the principles of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, to be effective against unintentional food safety risks. However, there is the intentional contamination
Elaine Andrade, Flavio Andrade, Gilberto Oliveira, Otniel Freitas‐Silva   +3 more
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Nurses’ Preparedness Toward Bioterrorism and Related Factors: A Multicenter Study [PDF]

Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly
Background: Today, bioterrorism has drawn the attention of disaster response organizations such as hospitals and nurses are at the front line of hospitals’ response to bioterrorism.
Vahid Ghavami, Marzie Asadi, Fatemeh Kokabi-Saghi, Hamidreza Shabanikiya   +3 more
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Objective risk assessment of bark and ambrosia beetles non‐indigenous to North America

Ecological Applications, Volume 35, Issue 5, July 2025.
Abstract Pest risk assessment informs regulatory decisions to facilitate safe trade while also protecting a country's agricultural and environmental resources. The first step in pest risk assessment is pest categorization which can help determine whether an in‐depth examination is needed.
Andrew J. Johnson, David Bednar, Jiri Hulcr   +2 more
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Assessing the use of infectious agents in bioterrorism: a narrative review of risks, preparedness, and response strategies

Bulletin of the National Research Centre
Background Bioterrorism involves the deliberate use of biological agents as weapons to cause harm or death to humans, animals, or plants. These agents are naturally found in the environment but can be modified into weapons.
Marianna-Foteini Dafni, Maria Vasileiou, Poliana Zanotto Manoel, Agnes Zanotto Manoel, Suvam Banerjee, Idalia Błażejczyk, Harshal Chorya, Rajiv Yussuf Ali   +7 more
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Mass Vaccination Campaign Following Community Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
During December 12–29, 1998, seven patients ages 2–18 years were diagnosed with serogroup C meningococcal disease in two neighboring Florida towns with 33,000 residents. We evaluated a mass vaccination campaign implemented to control the outbreak.
Gérard Krause, Carina Blackmore, Steven Wiersma, Cheryll Lesneski, Laurey Gauch, Richard S. Hopkins   +5 more
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Disaster management: designing a new model for effective planning in bioterrorism

Payesh, 2003
A biological attack can begin silently and insidiously. Instead of police, fire and emergency medical services rushing to a clearly apparent incident scene, medical facilities may be the first to see victims of a bioterrorism attack.
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Specific, Sensitive, and Quantitative Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Human Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Anthrax Toxin Protective Antigen

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
The bioterrorism-associated human anthrax epidemic in the fall of 2001 highlighted the need for a sensitive, reproducible, and specific laboratory test for the confirmatory diagnosis of human anthrax.
Conrad P. Quinn, Vera A. Semenova, Cheryl M. Elie, Sandra Romero-Steiner, Carolyn M. Greene, Han Li, Karen Stamey, Evelene Steward-Clark, Daniel S. Schmidt, Elizabeth Mothershed, Janet Pruckler, Stephanie Schwartz, Robert F. Benson, Leta O. Helsel, Patricia F. Holder, Scott E. Johnson, Molly Kellum, Trudy Messmer, W. Lanier Thacker, Lilah Besser, Brian D. Plikaytis, Thomas H. Taylor, Alison E. Freeman, Kelly J. Wallace, Peter Dull, Jim Sejvar, Erica Bruce, Rosa Moreno, Anne Schuchat, Jairam R. Lingappa, Sandra K. Martin, John Walls, Melinda Bronsdon, George M. Carlone, Mary Bajani-Ari, David A. Ashford, David S. Stephens, Bradley A. Perkins   +37 more
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Isolated Case of Bioterrorism-related Inhalational Anthrax, New York City, 2001

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
On October 31, 2001, in New York City, a 61-year-old female hospital employee who had acquired inhalational anthrax died after a 6-day illness. To determine sources of exposure and identify additional persons at risk, the New York City Department of ...
Timothy H. Holtz, Joel Ackelsberg, Jacob L. Kool, Richard Rosselli, Anthony Marfin, Thomas Matte, Sara T. Beatrice, Michael B. Heller, Dan Hewett, Linda Moskin, Michel L. Bunning, Marcelle Layton   +11 more
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Waterborne and foodborne zoonotic protozoa, an unknown threat as a biological agent in bioterrorism [PDF]

Bihdāsht-i Mavādd-i Ghaz̠āyī, 2019
Some zoonotic protozoa can be easily transmitted through food and water and cause serious illnesses in humans and animals. Because these pathogenic agents have some characteristics of an effective biological agent such as latent period, low infectious ...
N. Hajipour, J. Gharekhani
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