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“HOW SAFE
IS THE FOOD ON OUR TABLE?"
Wednesday 28 May 2008, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Central Time
A FREE,
Public Domain Satellite Broadcast
1. SPONSOR’S PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The National Terrorism Preparedness Institute (NTPI) at St. Petersburg
College (SPC) presents Live Response. Live Response is a prerecorded,
non-interactive 60-minute satellite television broadcast and Webcast that features a dynamic panel
discussion of experts who share their knowledge and experiences about
terrorism awareness, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Agriculture and Food Vulnerability
Assessment Training: “How Safe Is The Food On Our Table?”
What would happen if one of our
major food suppliers were to be attacked by terrorists? In our upcoming program,
we’ll take a fascinating look into the Agricultural Industry and how it could
potentially be affected by terrorism. We’ll go inside the classroom to a unique
course offering expert training in this area – as offered by the Center For
Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness at the University of Tennessee College of
Veterinary Medicine. It’s a look at potential problems and solutions – along
with proven measures to better protect our food industry, and more
importantly ourselves. This program and course will increase your awareness of these
issues and provide applications to implement within your own facility.
What will you learn?
Here are some of the key learning objectives for this program
* What are the essential criteria for
assessing potential food safety vulnerabilities?
* How can we identify and implement systems that will
reduce these vulnerabilities?
* How practical exercises identify threats to animal and
food processing facilities.
* How software assessment tools can be used to evaluate
potential vulnerabilities. 2. TARGET AUDIENCES: The
primary target audiences include the agriculture and food industry; state, county and
local officials; extension and crop specialists; agricultural crime
units; others involved with food and agricultural security planning.
3. SPONSORS: Live Response is
a recurring monthly satellite broadcast offering terrorism-related awareness
information to the nation's civilian and military emergency response
communities. Live Response is a product of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Training and Exercise Integration.
Live Response is produced by the National Terrorism Preparedness Institute, a
department of St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida. 4. AVAILABILITY:
This FREE, public domain,
pre-recorded program will be available
without commercial interruption as scheduled on C band analog satellite downlinks and on the
Military/Federal CDV DETN Hughes/Convergent digital satellite networks A live web cast will
also be available at http://terrorism.spcollege.edu.
All programs are archived and available for viewing from the website using the Windows Media Player.
Other federal and private satellite networks may also carry this
program. Local site use coordination of satellite downlinks will be required.
Selected public access stations may also carry this program. ACES 4DTV RECEIVER COORDINATES WILL BE
POSTED WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.
5.
NEW PROGRAM ANNOUNCED: The newly announced title for the
25 June program is: "How to
Prevent, Respond and Recover from an Agroterrorism Attack" ...watch for a more detailed program
description with objectives and a preview video after the Memorial
Day weekend... 6. REGISTRATION: All
sites can still register can for both of this FREE, public domain programs to receive
satellite coordinates (C band) or illumination authentication (GETN/Convergent
dishes) site support materials, and/or webcast instructions. Please register
on-line at the following web site: _Live Response Registration http://www.dlnets.com/ComNET1st.htm
Upcoming Live Response Program Dates
for Calendar Year 2008: 25 June 24 September 23 July 22 October 27 August 19 November 10 December