Food Chain Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group

Aim

The Food Chain Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group is one of the nine sector groups belonging to the Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

The group's primary aim is to improve the security of Australia’s agriculture and food supply chain in a changing global security environment.

Australia's existing food safety and security systems and food regulatory arrangements are primarily aimed at preventing and detecting natural or accidental risks. The challenge is to ensure these systems are capable of responding to an increased potential for acts of deliberate and malicious intervention.

The Food Chain group provides a forum where industry and government representatives can

  • share information on issues relating to generic threats to, and gaps and vulnerabilities in, our food safety and security systems and arrangements, and
  • develop appropriate measures and strategies to mitigate risk.

The group focuses on integrating improved preventive measures into existing systems to help improve security.  This includes discussing and sharing information about dependencies on other sectors.

Participation in the group does not stop members from taking part in other arrangements and discussions regarding critical infrastructure protection.

Members

Industry

Australian Government Agencies

Secretariat

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry provides secretariat support to the Food Chain Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group.

How to contact the Food Chain group

Food Chain IAAG Secretariat
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry