Wisconsin one of four states to get grant to protect food supply

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Wisconsin will help the nation create new ways to protect its food supply.

The Badger State was one of four to get Innovative Food Defense grants from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

It’s getting more than $62,000 to help boost a state program called Terrorist Incident GIS-Enhanced Response, or TIGER.

It’s in the process of creating computer maps which track contaminated food. Those maps use data from food licenses, state inspections and a geographic information system.

Wisconsin issues more than 30,000 food-related licenses each year.

Once the new computer system is developed, it would be made available to other states.

Other food defense grants went to California, New York and North Carolina.

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