Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastructure

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Threat

   1. Radionuclear Material Agents that Could be Used in Food and Water Supply Terrorism

      • Virginia Koukouliou

      Pages 3-14

   2. An Exploration of Potential Chemical and Biological Threat Agents

      • Christine Hansen

      Pages 15-24

   3. Food Quality Systems in Turkey: Perspectives in Terms of Food Defence

      • Hami Alpas, Serhat Aşci, Ahmet Ali Koç

      Pages 25-50

   4. Monitoring of Environmental Resources Against Intentional Threats

      • Nelson Marmiroli, Marta Marmiroli, Elena Maestri

      Pages 51-73

   5. Consumer Trust in Food Under Varying Social and Institutional Conditions

      • Unni Kjærnes

      Pages 75-86

   6. The Importance Of Local Production of Food in Crisis Situations

      • Alenka Urbančič

      Pages 87-98

   7. Terrorism “Assessing the Threat for Critical Infrastructure” Methodologies for Water Supplier

      • Di Wolfgang Czerni

      Pages 99-108

3. Management

   1. Water Management in Austria and Security of Water Supply

      • Wilfried Schimon

      Pages 111-130

   2. Integral Management of Water Resources in Croatia: Step Towards Water Security and Safety for All

      • Željko Dadić, Magdalena Ujević, Ksenija Vitale

      Pages 131-140

   3. Terrorism and the Food Chain

      • Evelyne Madelaine Maillot

      Pages 141-149

   4. Water for Vienna

      • Astrid Rompolt

      Pages 151-156

vi of a large number of people due to the enormous quantities of radioactive material that would be required to reach high levels of contamination in mass-produced or distributed supplies. Although, based on data presented at the Workshop concerning the more than 30,000 missing radioactive sources all over the word, the radioactive contamination of food or water is also a scenario that must be taken seriously into consideration. During the last two decades there have been several emerging hazards linked to animal diseases or originating in animal products for example: Avian Influenza (AI), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), West Nile Fever, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Ebola virus. All these diseases or events directly or indirectly affect food security and/or food safety. Approximately 75% of all emerging diseases are zoonotic by either an association with animal populations or an evolution of the disease in a- mals making it possible to move from animal species to humans. Participants were presented the primary results of the ongoing NATO- SPS Pilot Study on “Food Chain Security”. These results focused mainly on (i) an overview of the food system; (ii) prevention, surveillance and detection systems and (iii) response system. The importance of issues such as: vuln- ability assessments, risk communication in risk analysis, risk perception, traceability, preparedness – awareness, communication, have to be cons- ered when working on food chain security.

• Agro-terrorism
• ETA
• Environmental
• Food and water contamination
• Food safety
• NATO
• PEACE
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series C
• Terrorist
• food as a weapon
• food defense
• food terrorism
• terrorism
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk
• water policy

• Department of Environmental Radioactivity, Greek Atomic Energy Commission, Agia Paraskevi, Greece

  Virginia Koukouliou

• Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

  Magdalena Ujevic

• Federal Ministry of Agriculture Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria

  Otto Premstaller

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