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ADT, ARROWSIGHT Target Food Defense
ADTSeIect Vision

"Hot Zones" Adds Biosecurity Safeguards

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s processors respond to the call for proactive measures that
increase biosecurity safeguards in plants, a growing number are
turning to Remote Video Auditing (RVA) with Hot Zones, available from ADT and ARROWSIGHT.
Remote Video Auditing increases food defense at areas in processing plants and transportation facilities that are the most vulnerable
to a bioterrorist attack, where a single act of contamination could
inﬁltrate a large amount of food inventory.
"A signiﬁcant amount of meat could be contaminated with strategically placed pathogens that cause food borne illness," according to
Dr. Russell Cross, a well-known leader in the beef cattle and food
safety industries, and deputy vice chancellor of agriculture for the
Texas A&M University System.
RVA with Hot Zones delivers new safeguards - including security access restrictions, biometric readers, and Web-based video
monitoring - at the most critical points in plant operation (i.e. the
pickle making, mixing and storage areas) - 24 hours a day, every
day. These are combined with background checks of
employees with access to Hot Zones.
In transportation systems, auditors also monitor
truck trailers leaving plants, to conﬁrm that all trailer
openings are sealed from point of departure to point
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tors. Weekly email scorecards, reviewed by
auditors with plant management, summarize a location's performance.
"Remote Video Auditing of Hot Zones
should be a necessary element of every
plant's food safety and security program," adds Dr. James
Marsden, Regents Professor at Kansas State University.
"It allows for real time monitoring and auditing of biological, chemical and physical hazards whether they are
naturally occurring or intentional."
Plumrose USA, a prominent manufacturer of processed meats, uses Remote Video Auditing in their
Council Bluffs, Iowa plant.
"Remote Video Auditing has enabled us to make improvements
to speciﬁc areas in the processing chain," according to Mike Rozzano, Plumrose USA's general manager. "Their certiﬁed audit reports

"Remote Video Auditing of Hot Zones should be a
necessary element of every plant's food safety and
security program,"
- Dr. James Marsden, Regents Professor at Kansas State University

HOW IT WORKS: Remote Video Auditing video cameras monitor
the production process. Video images are stored on a digital video
recorder at the plant and viewed through the Internet, allowing thirdparty auditors as well as plant managers to watch critical control
points in real time. The system can be accessed from anywhere in the
world with secure Internet service.
Auditors review video associated with a procedure, process or
alarm event. Each of these procedures is monitored for food defense,
food safety and best practices. Daily, weekly and monthly audit
reports are generated, containing Web hyper-links to video and still
images that provide visual documentation of events captured by audi-

improve staff morale and give us more ammunition for the marketing
department. RVA gives us the data to prove that our plants exceed
government food safety standards."
Plumrose USA also credits RVA technology with greater returns on
investment, because the monitoring of production has yielded measurable improvements undetectable by other, more conventional means.
Remote Video Auditing with Hot Zones is available through ADT
Security Services, and marketed under the ADT Select Vision powered
by Arrowsight™ brand.
For more information contact Mark Moshier at 1-877-772-9526. Or
visit www.ADTSelectVision.com.

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