Homeland Security

1. Could terrorists introduce a health problem such as the UK Mad Cow situation into the US food chain? If not Mad Cow, are there other pathogens that would inflict the desired financial or health problems (casualties) on the US? Please support your answer with relevant examples

2. Since the US food chain is nationwide and diversified, could terrorist actions produce a long term impact rather than a short term disruption? If yes/no why? Support your answer with examples

3. Would a unified, independent food-safety agency improve our preparedness for a terrorist attack on the food chain? If yes/no why? Support your answer with examples

(b). Is there any logic to the current distributed organizational mission responsibilities for food safety? If yes/no why? Support your answer with examples

4. Several years ago, the President appointed Michael Taylor as Food Czar. This position has almost been invisible to the American public. Has the appointment of a Food Czar made any difference in food safety?

(b). If you could reset the clock back to his appointment date, what would your “to-do list” contain for the topic of food safety for the new Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine?

Business Continuity is risk analysis, emergency preparedness, pandemic planning, crisis management and much more. As a planner, you learn to see into the future and start to prepare for potential, probable, and unavoidable events. A good Business Continuity Planner integrates the principles of preparedness into their personal lives as well as their professional lives. 

Please respond to at least one of the following questions. Remember that participation at minimum levels will not earn maximum scores.

a). Regarding your personal/family resilience, do you have emergency preparedness and resilience plans for your own family or household? For how long, and for what kinds of events or scenarios have you planned? Are you prepared for scenarios such as power outages lasting several days, the need to evacuate, pandemic diseases or loss of your residence? How could you better prepare to be more resilient? How do households that have planned and prepared contribute to resilient communities?

b). Many companies exhibit the characteristics of resilience, or have proven to be resilient despite disasters or critical incidents. Identify a company or organization that you are familiar with or from your own research that demonstrates resilience, or has proven to be resilient following some disaster. What are/were the key characteristics or actions that made them resilient? 

At least 220 words for each question and two APA academy sources for each questions. Make sure you provide ideas are nearly always important and provide one or more major insights as well as providing a fruitful direction for the lesson. Arguments are well substantiated and persuasively presented. USE YOUR OWN WORDS