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Study looks at food terrorism risks 2/11/08 Quote:
Following the September 11 attacks, there has been a heightened awareness that the nation’s food supply could be at risk for possible attacks.
With that awareness, there has been increased focus on the need to implement food security measures – especially at the borders – to protect the food supply.
Arizona State University Associate Professor William Nganje, along with four other ASU faculty members, recently received a grant for about $263,000 to study the economic impact of what could happen in the event of an agroterrorism attack. The study focuses on the transportation of imported produce coming through the border between Arizona and Nogales, Mexico, which is one of the busiest ports at the Southwest border.
Nganje told Land Line on Friday, Feb. 8, that during the winter season from October to May, as many as 900 produce trucks pass through that port every day. Nganje said that only three trucks out of every 100 trucks coming across the border are inspected. Also, only 3 percent of the boxes on those trucks are inspected.
“There is no way inspectors can examine every truck and every box of produce that comes across the border,” he said.
In the 1980s, agroterrorism was used in countries like Israel, where mercury was used to poison vineyards. Another example Nganje uses is when cyanide was found in imported Chilean grapes that were imported into the U.S.
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