An Emergency Management Plan to Face a Foodborne Criminal Attack

A. Guinet (1) , Houssem Barkaoui (1) , Tao Wang (1) , Eric Dubost (2)

1 DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production
2 Centre Hospitalier Soins et Santé

Food poisoning is frequent in mass catering. Infections could occur with the raw materials used, the process of food preparation, the means of transport and preservation employed, etc. In this paper, we study the scenario of a malicious food poisoning involving patients of a home health care structure. Home health care patients are mainly disabled and/or elderly people. Being non-autonomous, they order meals to caterers. A criminal employee of a caterer could infect the foods which poison part of the home health care patients and some valid people. To face such threat, the home health care structure has planned to collaborate with conventional hospitals to better care people during the acute and recovery phases of the infection, in the framework of an emergency management plan. A linear program is proposed to simulate the studied scenario and assess its consequences. It models the foodborne infection and the medical response.

Mots clés: Biological Attack; Food Defense; Disease Control; Home Health Care Management; Decision Support System

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

A. Guinet, Houssem Barkaoui, Tao Wang, Eric Dubost. An Emergency Management Plan to Face a Foodborne Criminal Attack. 7th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2018), Jul 2018, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-01895901⟩