§       Fresh Produce Food Defense expert on USG team to Peru as part of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) food defense pilot capacity building activity.  2008.

§       Twice a speaker at FDA co-sponsored Food Defense Workshops for small business, on the topic of “Vulnerability Assessments using CARVER + Shock.” 2007.

§       Speaker at symposium by Microbe Inotech, on the topic of “Building Blocks of a Food Defense Program.” 2007.

§       Member of the Industry Workgroup for the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) a Homeland Security Center of Excellence.

§       Participant in the SPPA initiative of the US FDA CFSAN to conduct segment vulnerability assessments on the value added produce sector, using the CARVER + Shock assessment.  USDA and FBI as well as industry associations cooperated in this assessment.

§       Participant in the International Symposium on Agroterrorism (ISA) cosponsored by the FBI in September 2006 and April 2008.

§       Tulare table-top exercise on Food Defense with California Agricultural Commissioner.  2006.

§       Member of Infragard, a private/public partnership with the FBI, active in the North Texas chapter and participant in the national meeting in 2006.

§       Industry mentor for a 2005 project at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA on the topic “The Threat of AgroTerror on Monterey County.”

§       Participant in the full annual meeting of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense in Atlanta in 2005 and the IFT Food Defense meetings on the same dates.