Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner   

Office of Agricultural Emergency Preparedness

Agroterrorism Resources


  • Food Security, An Introduction
    National Restaurant Association
    Educational Foundation (NRAEF)

This booklet will introduce a systematic approach for developing food security practices at your own operation. By following the step-by-step TEAM approach, you will be able to begin developing a customized food security plan for your operation. Copies can be order through the NRAEF online store at www.nraef.org , of the NRAEF Customer Service Department at 800.765.2122

  • The Demon In The Freezer
    Richard Preston
    The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York
    1-800-733-3000

How smallpox, a disease officially eradicated twenty years ago, became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face.

  • GERMS - Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War
    Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad
    A Touchstone Book
    Simon & Schuster Publishers

The recent incidences of anthrax terrorism in the United States may leave people with the impression that biological agents are new weapons of war. Not so. The history of work on biological weapons during the past 50 years in the United States and abroad is comprehensively described in the book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by three reporters for The New York Times.

  • The Killer Strain - Anthrax and A Government Exposed
    Marilyn W. Thompson
    Harper Collins Publishers

The Killer Strain is a detailed examination of the federal government's inability to protect citizens from the acts of a determined madman. It shows how billions of dollars and a decade of elaborate bioterror dress rehearsals meant nothing in the face of a real Anthrax attack.

  • Biohazard
    Ken Alibek
    With Stephen Handelman

The chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the world-told from inside by the man who ran it.

Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism assesses the vulnerability of US agriculture to intentional threats and provides recommendations needed to strengthen and adapt the US system for defense against biological threats to agriculture.

  • Food and Agricultural Security: Guarding against Natural Threats and Terrorist Attacks
    Thomas W. Frazier
    Drew C. Richardson

Addresses issues concerning the possibility of bioterrorism against agricultural crops and domestic animals.