Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (BTA)
World Health Organization defined food security as the implication that all people at all times have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life
9/11 created a need for increasing focus on safety of food supply chain
Bioterrorism: Use of biologic agents or toxins targeted at civilian populations to coerce political or social objectives
World food supply is globalized – little isolation from farm to processing to table
Prevention as the first line of defense
Increases the number of inspections
Requires improvements to the information management systems of the FDA
Requires that any foreign facility engaged in manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding food for consumption in the United States be registered
Requires the establishment and maintenance of records by persons who manufacture, process, pack, transport, distribute, receive, hold, or import food
Allows the FDA access to all records relating to such articles
