Thursday, April 30, 2026

Protecting U.S. food supply from bioterrorism threats

By Elizabeth Bobenhausen Poultry Times staff ebobenhausen@poultrytimes.com

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This is the fourth in a series from Poultry Times regarding the importance of security. This article deviates from farm biosecurity and focuses on bioterrorism, cyber and other threats potentially posed to the nation’s food supply.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Bioterrorism can be a threat to America’s food supply. John Hopkins University describes bioterrorism as “an act or threat of deliberate contamination of food for human consumption with chemical, biological or radio nuclear agents for the purpose of causing injury or death to civilian populations and/or disrupting social, economic or political stability.”

They explain that terrorists can attack the. . .

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