You are here

Home » Research

Research Directory

Economically Motivated Adulteration (EMA) Phase 4

Principal Investigator: 
Karen Everstine
Numerous economically motivated adulteration (EMA) incidents have resulted in public health consequences, including deaths. EMA incidents demonstrate a loss of control over the supply chains for food products. This hampers food safety efforts, and also demonstrates gaps that could be exploited for...
Research Areas: 
Food and Agriculture Security

Virtual Integrated Real-Time User AnaLytics (VIRTUAL) Tool

Principal Investigator: 
Tejas Bhatt
The current global food system is increasingly complex where it is incredibly difficult to analyze the macro-level effects of micro-level decisions. Realistically, there isn't a mechanism to scientifically and accurately depict the dynamics of the supply chain distribution of a food product...
Research Areas: 
Advanced Data Analysis and Visualization

Emerging Issues: Ebola

Principal Investigator: 
Amy Kircher
The world's largest and longest outbreak of Ebola currently ongoing in West Africa presents a potential threat to the United States. In the context of Ebola, the threat of contaminated food commodities entering the United States and the risk of human infection via consumption of...

Commercialization for Focused Integration of Data for Early Signals (FIDES)

Principal Investigator: 
Amy Kircher
Regulated food products are distributed through global supply chains and are comprised of multiple complex systems to move food from farm to fork. Due to the nature of these systems, rapid and ongoing identification of possible risks are an ongoing challenge. Threats to food products come in many...

World Fact Book of Food

Principal Investigator: 
Amy Kircher
Throughout NCFPD's tenure, there have been repeated requests, requirements, and inquiries for a central reference repository that holds data on food. These requests have come from government and industry alike to support risk and vulnerability assessments as well as understanding real-time...

FPDI Policy Summit

Principal Investigator: 
Amy Kircher
The NCFPD Policy Summit will convene decision makers and subject matter experts from key stakeholder organizations in the food, agriculture, and homeland security sectors to identify and define critical policy issues for protecting the food system and create action plans for addressing them. As a...

Pages