

He also serves on the Steering Committee for the new Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, established by the FDA to assist the private sector in meeting the requirements of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act.

His past research and development projects have included the Food and Agriculture Sector Criticality Assessment Tool (FASCAT), for which he proposed and developed the basic concepts in prototype the development of national and state level bio-surveillance systems defending against economically motivated adulteration of food and feed products defense of the nation’s food supply infrastructure and high consequence food event modeling. He is also working on improved bio-surveillance systems and early recognition of high consequence events so as to improve our early intervention capabilities. He is a co-investigator for the CRISTAL project that is designed to improve the documentation and overall risks assessment of all components of modern global food supply chains. His current areas of focus are on improving the resilience of the nation’s food supply systems and to reduce risks to the complex supply chains that support the food and agriculture infrastructure. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence at the University of Minnesota. Hoffman is a Senior Research Fellow with the Food Protection and Defense Institute, a U.S.
