Wisconsin is getting over $62,000 from the USDA to combat agro-terrorism.
The state Ag Department’s high-tech plans to protect the nation’s food system from agro-terrorism earns the agency’s Food Safety Division one of only four Innovative Food Defense grants from the federal government.
“They were grants that were intended to spark some innovative ideas about how to protect our food supply in case of some kind of an agro-terrorism attack on the food supply.”
Donna Gilson with the Ag Department explains TIGER is a high-tech tool to help investigate a terrorist strike to Wisconsin’s vital food industry. Its intent is to minimize the damage to people’s health and the economy, by being able to act very quickly using specialized computer maps to track down potentially contaminated food. [click to continue…]
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