Food Warehousing

Food storage facilities can incur damage during natural disasters that affect their ability to operate resulting in very significant losses. Please click on the links below to get information that well help prevent these losses or help respond and recover from damage that does occur.

Preparedness
Response and Recovery
Assistance
Links

Preparing for a Weather Emergency
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Preparing_for_Weather_Emergency/
index.asp
Prevention
IFDA Crisis Communication Manual (PDF | 175 KB)
Emergency information for food safety in case of local radiological or other hazmat emergency
http://ncagr.gov/disaster/Emergency-Information-for-Farmers-Food-Processors.pdf

Guidelines on Remediation and Restoration of Food Processing Facilities after an Intentional Contamination Event
www.ncagr.gov/fooddrug/documents/IFDPDraftGuidanceModulesBookmarks8-20.pdf
FDA - Safety of Food Affected by Hurricanes, Flooding, and Power Outages
www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Emergencies/ucm112723.htm
FDA - How to Dispose of Contaminated or Spoiled Food
www.fda.gov/food/recallsoutbreaksemergencies/emergencies/ucm112717.htm

Find your local Cooperative Extension Service office
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/counties/dist_map.pdf
NC Department of Insurance Disaster & Recovery Information
http://www.ncdoi.com/Consumer/Consumer_Disaster.aspx
FSA Service Center Locator
http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app?state=nc&agency=fsa
FSA Disaster Assistance Programs
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=diap&topic=landing
Disaster Unemployment Assistance from Employment Security Commission
http://www.ncesc1.com/PMI/News/PressReleases/General/NR-DUA-End-Irene.pdf
Small Business Administration Disaster Loan info
http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/loans-grants/small-business-loans/disaster-loans
FEMA: Federal Aid Programs for NC Disaster Recovery 1-800-621-3362
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=57536

N.C. County Emergency Coordinators
http://www.nccrimecontrol.org/Index2.cfm?a=000003,000010,000073
County Extension Centers
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/index.php?page=countycenters
N.C. Food Safety
http://www.ncfoodsafety.com/
FSA Disaster Assistance
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=diap&topic=landing