Q: What is the difference between Food Quality, Food Safety, Food Defense, and Food
Protection?
A: Food Quality focuses on food, water, and ice's (subsistence) measurable
characteristics that consumers value. Measurable characteristics consist of
items such as shape, size, flavor, texture, marbling, etc. Food Safety focuses
on accidental or unintentional contamination or adulteration of food, water, and
ice (subsistence) by chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN), or
physical agents. Food Defense focuses on intentional contamination or
adulteration of food, water, and ice (subsistence) by chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear (CBRN), or physical agents with the intent to cause harm
and includes evaluating personnel, physical, and operational security
vulnerabilities. Food Protection encompasses Food Quality, Food Safety, and Food
Defense.
