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Food Production andDistribution: Threats,
Vulnerabilities andGlobal Issues
Jon Seltzer, Assistant Director NCFPD
Alabama Food Safety and Defense ConferenceMontgomery, Alabama
May 13 - 14, 2008
Food Production andDistribution: Threats,
Vulnerabilities andGlobal Issues
• Distribution (Retailing/ Consumer)
• Food Production and Distribution:Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Global Issues (Melamine)
The Food Industryat 35,000 Feet
Jon SeltzerCorporate Resource, Inc.
Montgomery, AlabamaMay 13, 2008
(952) 926-4602 [email protected]
Jon Seltzer
The Consumer!
Today’s Topic
• Consumer expectations and demandsare changing
• In response, retail, supermarkets andrestaurants are changing
• There is more square footage at retailand more new items than before
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Today’s Topic• Consumer expectations and demands
are changing
• In response, retail, supermarkets andrestaurants are changing
• There is more square footage at retailand more new items than before
Today’s Topic• In my opinion, increases in food prices
and concerns about the economy willaccelerate the impact of the abovetrends
Scale and Scope of the Food Industry• $1.24 trillion sector
$457.4 billiongrocery (FMI)
• $476 billion foodservice (NRA)
• $60.5 billion exports
• $58.5 billion imports• 12% GDP• 17% workforce
Manufacturer Shipments andRetail Sales Equivalent (2006)
Expected Time to Prepare A Meal
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Lifestyle: Less Timefor Cooking
Household Composition
25% hh - single person
11% hh - single parent
20% hh - married couplesno kids at home
26% hh - married coupleswith kids at home
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Fast Food/Pizza
Resturant
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Source of Food by AgeMeasured in Grams
Source of Food by Age Evolution in How We Eat
• Eating occasions, not meals
– 50% of people eat while working
– 42% eat while watching TV
– 19% eat in the car
• Strong desire for “simplification”
“Generally, America no longer “cooks.”In fact many young Americans viewwords like ‘menu’ and ‘recipe’ ascomputer, not kitchen, terms.”
– Ira Blumenthal Meal Solutions Mania
Convenience
Rank Company
Retail Banner Sales, 2004 (USD mn)
Estimated Share of Private Labels,
2004 (%)
Estimated Private Label Sales (USD
mn)1 Wal-Mart 310,576 37.0 11,491,3122 Carrefour 112,458 32.0 3,598,6563 Ahold 88,179 23.0 2,028,1174 Metro Group 80,621 13.0 1,048,0735 Tesco 68,164 45.0 3,067,3806 Seven & I 58,757 27.0 1,586,4397 Kroger 58,647 24.6 1,442,7168 Rewe 55,216 25.0 1,380,4009 Target 53,949 46.0 2,481,65410 Costco 51,199 12.0 614,38811 Auchen 50,751 25.0 1,268,77512 AEON 50,746 17.0 862,68213 Casino 50,064 40.0 2,002,56014 Schwarz Group 46,448 63.0 2,926,22415 Aldi 46,430 95.0 4,410,85016 ITM (Intermarche) 46,355 35.0 1,622,42517 Supervalu/Albertson's 41,975 17.0 713,57518 Edeka 39,676 10.0 396,76019 Walgreens 39,458 11.0 434,03820 Safeway (USA) 39,112 24.0 938,688
Total 1,388,781 31.9 44,315,712
Private Label Share - World's Top 20 Grocers
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Market Share and Growth
11%6%Emerging Markets
5%2%Latin America
5%4%Asian - Pacific
7%16%North America
4%23%Europe
5%17%Worldwide
Growth RatePrivate Label % ofDistribution/Share
Country of Origin
Importance of aRetailer’s Own Brand
• All the experts agree
– According to McKinsey, a “shift tovalue” among consumers shouldinspire retailers to differentiate witha “superior private label”
– FMI recommends offering “multipletiers to reach new consumers andbuild loyalty”
Importance of aRetailer’s Own Brand
– M&M Planet Retail foresees almost50% sales growth for private label inthe food industry by the year 2020
Importance of aRetailer’s Own Brand
Global Trends in Private Label Food Sales, 1995-2020
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Concentration of Competition
• The Wal*Mart Influence
– Wal*Mart’s supply chain cost savingsequate to saving U.S. customers $20billion/year
– Now sells 30% of nation’s householdstaples
– Opening 335 new stores
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Concentration of Competition– Reaction of competition
• Strive to match supply chainefficiency, cost cutting
• Acquisitions and Mergers to gaincritical mass
Concentration of Competition• Result
– Some real gains in efficiency – digitaltechnology
– Diminishing cost savings– Loss of innovation – new products,
topline growth– Profitability crunch– Vicious cycle
Top 4/5 Retail Food StoreCompanies U.S.
TotalSales (%)
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1. Wal-MartKrogerKrogerA&P
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SafewayAlbertsonsNational Tea
CostcoSafewayWinn-DixieSafeway
KrogerAholdSafewayKroger
SupervaluWal-MartAmericanAmerican
2006200019901930
Concentration
ConcentrationPlus
Format Proliferation
Dollar Stores• Dollar stores are experiencing
unprecedented growth
• Most of the top consumer packagedgoods manufacturers haveincorporated them into regular salesplanning and distribution
• About one-third of all U.S.households shop at a dollar storemonthly
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More Stores• In 1995, 625 supermarkets and 818
convenience stores served theChicago area
• Ten years later, groceries could beobtained at 781 supermarkets, 2,030convenience stores, 338 massmerchandisers such as Wal-Mart andTarget, and 29 wholesale clubs, suchas Costco and Sam's Club
Non-Traditional RetailersLower Average Food Prices
Specialty/Gourmet FoodStores Increase Health
Food Options
How We Shop• Grandparents went to a supermarket
once a week and likely went back timeand again to the same supermarket.
• Today we“shop on average more thantwice a week and in a month, shop atseven different food distributors, fromwarehouse clubs to drugstore chains”
How We Shop• “So even though we say we're busier
than ever, we will make time to go to asecondary location for value.”
Value and Quality
• $100,000 households vs. < $20,000
– 2x as likely to patronize a warehouseclub
– 9% more likely to frequent a mass-merchant
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Value and Quality
• $20,000 households
– 74% more likely to shop at dollarstores
– 42% more likely to patronize a gas/c-store
– 21% more likely to frequent asupercenter
Too Many Items to Fiton the Shelf
• 200,000 + UPC / Bar Codes
• 45,000 in most stores
• 500 in the average home
New Items Keep Coming
• 95% of the 15,000 plus new itemsintroduced every year in the U.S. donot last 12 months
Trade Promotions in the U.S.• Over a third of Consumer Packaged
Goods volume is sold on promotionin the U.S.
• Both manufacturers and retailershave made it very clear that featureads, displays, and temporary pricereductions are a huge part of howgoods are sold in the grocery, drugand mass merchandiser channels
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Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1991, 1996, 2004
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(*BMI ≥30, or about 30 lbs overweight for 5’4” person)
No Data <10% 10%-14% 15%-19% 20%-24% ≥ 25%
Small is Big Today
• Down-sized packages of product thattravel easily and contain fewercalories than traditional formats
• Earthbound Farms now makes a 2-oz.mini-pack in addition to their 12-oz.family pack
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Small is Big Today• Kraft Foods has begun selling 100-
calorie packages of its Chips Ahoy!Sales of these mini-packs are brisk,with Kraft taking in $75 million sinceintroducing its 100-calorie line lastsummer
• I want it healthy, I want itdelicious—and I want it now
Going for Satisfaction• Single-serve portions can enjoy
greater quality control, than a multi-serving bag that’s been open a while
• There’s something great about beingable to say, “I ate the whole thing!”without then having to say, “Oops!”
• Who benefits?• Production/yield
– BST/BGH– Roundup ready– BT corn
• Benefit “realized” by the consumer
Technology/Science
Biology Genetics Chemistry
It’s the Economy!
• Housing
• Property taxes/ municipal financing
• Credit availability
• The dollar
• Rice prices on world markets havejumped 50% in the past two monthsand doubled since 2004
• Sam’s and COSTCO are limiting howmuch rice customers can buybecause .. "recent supply anddemand trends"
Concerns About FoodPrices and Availability
Food Production andDistribution: Threats,
Vulnerabilities andGlobal Issues
Jon Seltzer, Assistant Director NCFPD
Alabama Food Safety and Defense ConferenceMontgomery, Alabama
May 13 - 14, 2008
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NCFPD Vision
DEFENDING the SAFETYof theFOOD SYSTEM through
RESEARCH and EDUCATION
Broad Academic Collaboration
Diverse Industry andAssociation Collaboration
Collaborating Across Agencies
State/Local Agencies
Security/Safety/Defense• Food Security
– Supply sufficiency – access tonutritionally adequate and safe food
• Food Safety
– System reliability – reducingexposure to naturalhazards/errors/failures
Security/Safety/Defense• Food Defense
– System resiliency – reducing theimpact of system attacks
• Food Protection
– Global food supply systemSafety/Defense “umbrella”
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Food Safety vs. Defense• Food Safety
– System failure– Microbial and
chemical agents– Known agents– Reasonably likely– Accidental– Low levels/
concentration– FDA / USDA
• Food Defense– System attack– Microbial and
chemical agents– Unexpected agents– Unlikely– Intentional– High levels/
concentration– FBI
Food Safety Events• Hundreds of food product recalls occur on
an ongoing basis, but over the past yearthere have been several very high profileincidents that have captured nationalattention
September2006
February2007
April2007
Tracking ConsumerConfidence
• Preliminary research consisted of threesurveys conducted to measure the impactof these events
September2006
February2007
April2007
OriginalSurvey
Wave II Wave III
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Some Findings• The pet food incident had the highest
level of consumer awareness, althoughthe Peanut Butter and Fresh Spinachrecalls also had high awareness –demonstrating they commandednational attention
• Awareness decreased somewhat in thetwo months following the specificincident in question
Some Findings
Product Recalled Base is Those Aware of Any Recall
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Pet Food PeanutButter
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FreshLettuce
GroundBeef
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Ice Cream Milk CannedPeaches
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July 2005 March 2007 May 2007
• Although awareness of specific recallsmay wane, there seems to be anaccumulating impact on consumerconfidence in the food supply
Consumer Confidence Trend
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Percent Reporting that any Household Member Experienced Food Safety Concern - Top 2 Box
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Food Safety Concerns• And consumers during this time have
experienced increasing concern overfood safety in their household
Consumer Perceived Responsibility
• The government and foodmanufacturers are seen as mostresponsible for insuring food safety
• Since the spinach incident consumersview farmers as more responsible andretail stores as less.
Consumer Perceived Responsibility
Perceived Responsibility for Food Safety
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Processors/Manufacturers 30.4 30.4 31.1
Consumer 15.2 16.7 16.2
Retail-Grocery Store/Restaurants 9.4 5.2 4.0
Farmers 8.7 12.5 10.3
Transporters/Distributors 3.5 3.8 2.9
July 2005 March 2007 May 2007
Summary of Findings• Although awareness of specific food
safety incidents seems to wane overtime, recent high profile incidents doappear to have had a profoundcumulative impact on consumerperceptions of the safety of the foodsupply– Confidence in the food supply has
dropped significantly
Summary of Findings– Consumers have expressed
increasing concern over food safetywith respect to their individualhouseholds
– The impact may even have haloedfood defense• Consumers are willing to allocate
more defense spending to thefood supply chain
Summary of Findings• Information with on product recalls is
thought to be lacking with respect toadequacy
• Although consumers get theirinformation from multiple sources,television has by far the greatestbreadth reaching 9 out of 10consumers
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Summary of Findings• The government and manufacturers
are perceived to have the greatestresponsibility for food safety, howeverthe responsibility seems to follow thelatest incident
How Many of You Expect aSerious Terrorist Act in the U.S.
Within the Next 4 Years?
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Who Are We Concerned About?• Disgruntled employees• Violent activist groups• Criminals/subversives• International/government supported or
directed groups or individuals
Why Are We ConcernedAbout Food Terrorism?
• No specific targeting informationindicating attack on food supply isimminent
Encyclopedia of Jihad
Why Are We ConcernedAbout Food Terrorism?
• Intelligence indicates that terroristshave discussed components of foodsector
• Manuals for intentional contaminationof food are widely available
Encyclopedia of Jihad
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Why Are We ConcernedAbout Food Terrorism?
• Food sector a huge economicengine: $1.24 trillion/year
• Food system complexity makes ithard to protect– 2,128,000 farms– 29,000 food manufacturing sites– 224,300 retail food stores– 565,000 food service outlets
Why Are We ConcernedAbout Food Terrorism?
• Even an ineffective attack could causesignificant economic and psychologicaldamage
• Efficient food distribution = potential formass casualties
• Concern exists for exploitation of softtargets, such as the food supply
Why Are We ConcernedAbout Food Terrorism?
• Attack severity depends on severalfactors, agent characteristics, attackscenario, and efficiency andeffectiveness of detection andresponse
• EVERYONE eats and drinks!
Are Your Employeesand Co-workers Aware?
• 1 in 6 Americans work in anoccupation directly linked to food
• “It won’t happen to me” syndrome• Lack of awareness, knowledge and/or
concern about food defense• “It’s not my job” syndrome• Avoidance coping mechanism• These contribute to the vulnerability of
the food supply!
What Makes the Food Supplya Vulnerable Target?
• Potential devastating economic impact
– Direct economic losses
• Medical costs/lost wages
• Containment, decontaminationand disposal
– International costs
• Trade embargoes
What Makes the Food Supplya Vulnerable Target?
– Indirect multiplier effects
• Compensation paid to affectedproducers
• Losses suffered by affiliatedindustries
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What Makes the Food Supplya Vulnerable Target?
• Potential for loss of public confidence
• Just-in-time production
• Brand image
• Lack of adequate response systems
High Risk Factors• Large batch size
– high number of contaminatedservings, potential affectedindividuals
– Uniform mixing– efficient agent distribution into
servings– Short shelf life– rapid turnaround at retail, rapid
consumption
High Risk Factors• Easy access
– Ability to reach process at high riskpoints
– Poorly supervised food productionareas, processes
• Widely disseminated foods– Decreased chance of public health
recognition, intervention
Additional Vulnerability,Risk Factors
• Serving size - sufficient agent delivery• Consumption frequency• Ability to disguise the contaminant• High impact consumer = children,
elderly• Import from country of concern• Lack of processing/preparation steps
to inactivate, reduce agent
Supply Chain Complexity
Food Production andDistribution: Threats,
Vulnerabilities andGlobal Issues
Jon Seltzer, Assistant Director NCFPD
Alabama Food Safety and Defense ConferenceMontgomery, Alabama
May 13 - 14, 2008
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Recent Food System Events Early Warning• February 20, 2007
– Menu Foods receives first report ofa food-related pet death
– Three cats reported, two hadaccess to the outdoors and mayhave ingested antifreeze, which candamage kidneys
Early Warning– Alarms don't go off, company says.
(Anecdotal data puts first reportsback as far as December, 2006)
• February 27, 2007
– Menu Foods starts testing reportedtainted food on cats and dogs
Questions at This Time….• What information did Menu Foods
need?
• What else could Menu Foods havedone?
• What would be different if it had beena human food with a similarcomplaint?
Questions at This Time….• What risk management decisions can
a company make with this level ofinformation?
Pet Food Recall• March 8, 2007
– ChemNutra learns that wheat glutenit imported from China is amongsuspect ingredient, quarantinesinventory
• March 12, 2007
– Menu learns that nine cats in trialshave died; verifies they ate Menu'sfoods
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Pet Food Recall• March 16, 2007
– Menu recalls more than 60 millioncans and pouches of wet food,manufactured between December 3and March 6
• March 17, 2007
– First report of tainted wheat glutenbeing identified as possible sourceof pet food contamination
Pet Food Recall• March 20, 2007
– FDA confirms 14 dead pets
• March 23, 2007
– New York state lab says it foundaminopterin, a rat poison, insamples of cat food from Menu
Deconstructing The Event• March 26, 2007
– FDA tells Cornell that another labfound melamine, Cornell confirmsfinding
• March 30, 2007
– FDA issues ‘import alert’ andannounces melamine is leadingsuspect
Deconstructing The Event– Restricts wheat gluten from China's
Xuzhou Anying BiologicTechnology Development
– Hill's Pet Nutrition, Nestlé PurinaPetCare and Del Monte PetProducts announce small recalls
Deconstructing The Event• April 2, 2007
– Chinese exporter (Xuzhou AnyingBiologic) and U.S. Distributor(ChemNutra) of tainted wheatgluten revealed
– ChemNutra recalls wheat glutenfrom 3 pet-food makers and 1distributor, says no Xuzhou glutenwent to human food production
Deconstructing The Event– FDA stops imports from Xuzhou
– ChemNutra stated that it shippedthe 791 metric tons of gluten to petfood facilities, no human foodfacilities
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Deconstructing The Event• April 5, 2007
– FDA acknowledged that the wheatGluten contamination could beintentional
• April 9, 2007
– A suspect container of possiblycontaminated wheat gluten (700bags) arrived at the LA/LB Seaport
Deconstructing The Event• April 10, 2007
– Chinese government reported 1dead and 202 people ill afterconsuming a breakfast cereal lacedwith rat poison
• April 18, 2007– Pet food recall expanded to include
Natural Balance products (Pacoima,CA) containing rice protein lacedwith melamine
Deconstructing The Event• April 19, 2007
– Royal Canin and Hill’s pet foodsrecalled in South Africa due to thepotential of melamine in the wheatgluten ingredients
– Wilbur-Ellis (grain importer) recallsChinese sourced, contaminated riceprotein (Binzhou Futian) that wasshipped to 5 pet-food firms
Deconstructing The Event– U.S. officials investigating reports
that Binzhou Futian rice protein hadbeen used in hog feed, but declinedto specify where
– The California Department of Foodand Agriculture placed AmericanHog Farm in Ceres, California underquarantine, after melamine wasfound in the urine of the hogs onthe farm
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Questions at This Time….• What is the impact of the change in
implicated contaminant?• What is the impact of the expansion
to include human food systemexposure?
• How does the potential for intentionalcontamination change the response?
• How could the trace-back have beenaccomplished faster?
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Moving Forward• April 21, 2007
– Detained 700 bags of wheat glutentested positive for melamine andseized
• April 24, 2007– FDA confirms melamine in feed
given to hogs in California, NewYork, North Carolina, SouthCarolina, Utah, Missouri (chickenfeed too) and possibly Ohio
Moving Forward– FDA expands melamine testing of
imported ingredients/finishedproducts beyond wheat/rice glutento cornmeal, corn gluten, rice bran& soy protein
Moving Forward• April 26, 2007
– Over 6,000 hogs quarantined onfarms in California, New York,South Carolina, North Carolina,Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ohio
– USDA announced that the meat of345 hogs that had eatencontaminated feed entered the U.S.food supply
Moving Forward• April 30, 2007
– FDA blocks all food and feed gradeingredients/products from Chinathat are not sampled forcontaminants
Moving Forward• May 1, 2007
– Indiana reports that contaminatedpet food was added to feed for 30broiler poultry and 8 breederpoultry farms in Indiana that havealready gone into the human foodchain
Moving Forward– The feed was used in early
February, affected breeders onvoluntary hold, broilers alreadyprocessed
• May 9, 2007– FDA/Dept of State investigation
finds evidence of melamine atoriginating company in China
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Moving Forward• May 10, 2007
– CBP initiates testing of all feedingredients from Canada, creatingfeed supply problems in the borderstates
Moving Forward• May 15, 2007
– 56,000 swine cleared for processingwithout being individually testedafter FDA/USDA risk assessmentsuggests "very low" risk to humans
• May 17, 2007
– USDA allows 80,000 birds held onfarms in Indiana to bereleased/processed
New Food Concerns• May 22, 2007
– Melamine detected in importedAsian catfish for human food (nothealth hazard)
• May 24, 2007
– FDA warning on imported Chinesemonkfish as actually puffer fish
New Food Concerns• May 30, 2007
– FDA announces two US-basedanimal feed manufacturers hadbeen adulterating livestock feedand fish/shrimp feed withmelamine, adding melamine toimprove the binding properties ofpelleted food
• FDA: Throw Away Toothpaste Madein China
– Consumers warned of potentiallytainted toothpaste from China
– Suspect products may containdiethylene glycol, or DEG, used inantifreeze
New Import Concerns– DEG found in Cooldent Fluoride,
Cooldent Spearmint, Cooldent ICE
– FDA unaware of any poisoning fromtoothpaste in the United States
New Import Concerns
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Other Import Concerns?
China shuts 180 food factories for using illegal chemicalsPOSTED: 2:58 a.m. EDT, June 27, 2007 BEIJING, China (AP) -- China has closed 180 food factoriesafter inspectors found industrial chemicals being used inproducts from candy to seafood, state media said Wednesday.The closures came amid a nationwide crackdown on shoddyand dangerous products launched in December that alsouncovered use of recycled or expired food, the China Daily said.Formaldehyde, illegal dyes, and industrial wax were found beingused to make candy, pickles, crackers and seafood, it said,citing Han Yi, an official with the General Administration ofQuality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
Event Summary• In 2006 imports of protein
enhancement products from Chinasurged
• In February, pet foods discovered tobe contaminated with melamine
– An estimated 30,000+ pets havebecome sick or died
Event Summary• Contamination was apparently for
economic gain, ‘enhance’ theapparent level of protein
• Until April, FDA/USDA stated thatthere was no evidence human foodchain was impacted
Event Summary• Human consumption confirmed on
April 28, 2007
• FDA & USDA have stated that there isno significant risk to those whoconsumed melamine or cyanuric acidcontaminated pork, poultry or fishproducts
Event Summary• Extent of contaminated pet food use
in feed is not fully known and, whilethe risk appears low, the extent andlong term consequence of humanexposure is not known
Event Summary• Swine/poultry industry routinely use
expired pet food in feed
– Initial checks in mid April confirmedpresence of melamine in livestockfeed used in six states
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Event Summary• By early May 2007 it became evident
that the contaminated pet foodmaterials had spread into the feed ofa wide variety of food animals:
– Swine
– Poultry
– Farm Raised Fish
Event Summary
• By May it was clear that not all of theprotein products shipped by theChinese firms were as labeled:
– Rice protein was actually wheat flour
– Some of the wheat gluten wasactually wheat flour!
Event Summary
• Late May the Chinese admitted that thefirms involved had intentionallycontaminated the products as acts ofinternational economic fraud
Event Summary• It is not known if China sold similar
products to other foreign suppliers offood products to the U.S. market,such as Thai shrimp farmers
• This event demonstrates a potentiallysignificant vulnerability that resultsfrom the global nature of our food andagriculture systems
Event Summary• Primary issue is not the toxicity of the
melamine, cyanuric acid, amilorineand amiloride contaminates
• Real issue is that adulterants foundtheir way into our pet and human foodsupply chains and were not detecteduntil there was morbidity and mortalityin pets
Event Summary• Global channels of food/feed
ingredient movement into the U.S. arenot consistently, adequatelymonitored
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Event Summary• Even if they were more closely
monitored, in this case one wouldhave had to be looking specifically formelamine to have detected it
• Actual extent of livestock feedapplications for pet food productswere not fully appreciated by somefederal and state agencies
Event Summary• Many stakeholders were unaware of
the risk exposed by this event and thescale of the consequences acrossindustry and government
Take Home Messages• This was a very unsophisticated act,
yet the consequences have beensubstantial and not yet fullyunderstood
• Event such as this provide potential‘roadmaps’, so we must address suchnewly identified vulnerabilities rapidly
Take Home Messages• This event suggests that we are not
fully prepared to effectively manageand rapidly mitigate the effects of amajor food system contaminationevent
“Fighting terrorism is like beinga goalkeeper. You can make a
hundred brilliant saves but the oneshot that people remember is the
one that gets past you.” Paul Wilkinson, Daily Telegraph, London
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