Food Biosecurity: Modeling the Health, Economic, Social and Psychological Consequences of Intentional and Unintentional Food Contamination

<OL> <LI>To identify and measure the economic costs associated with incidents that threaten or appear to threaten food safety; <LI>Toinvestigate social disruptions resulting from biohazards and policies designed to prevent them and develop methods to estimate the cost of such disruptions; <LI>To analyze tradeoffs between the costs of implementing specific policies and the risk-based costs of not implementing them; <LI>To examine insurance and liability issues; <LI>To identify the criteria sought by terrorists to maximize economic damage from an agroterrorist attack and understand the relationships between terrorist activities (threats and actions) and consumer behavior, attitudes and risk perceptions; <LI>To apply game theory to relevant and realistic scenarios to form a basis for decision making and planning; <LI>To analyze strategies of redundancy and other security measures that minimize vulnerability; <LI>To assess potential targets in terms of vulnerability and desirability to terrorists; <LI>To address related issues of risk, uncertainty, animal and plant health, insurance under the more general heading of biosecurity.