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 * Food Defense - Food defense
 * I am interested in working on an article related to food security for my project. This article seemed like a good jumping off point.

Lead
The lead begins with a strong introductory sentence that describes the article topic. The rest of the lead does not meet the quality of the introductory sentences. The rest of the lead goes on to discuss other topic not mentioned in the rest of the article. It only briefly touches on a couple of the sections in the article but not much is said about them. While the lead section is concise, it is mainly comprised of details that are not pertinent to the rest of the article.

Content
The content in the article is all relevant to the topic. While no dates are provided thought out the text, the content does seem up to date. As you go deeper into the article the detail becomes more sparse and could use more elaborating.

Tone and Balance
While the content isn't pushing a particular agenda and is written in a neutral tone there is heavy representation of the United Stated politics. Either more information of other countries/global practices or a change in the article title would drastically improve the tone and balance of the article.

Sources and References
There are many paragraphs and sentences that are left without references. If a sentence is referenced most citations only have one article referenced, only a couple have multiple sources cited. The sources that are mentioned reflect the content in the article and most of them have been published within the last decade. Taking a look at the list of references they seem to be taken from a relatively small pool of available content. Many of the links don't go directly to information but rather an organizations website leaving the reader to navigate to find the information.

Organization
The organization of the article is functional. It's written in a manner that is easy to follow and flows well. It is broken in to sections that are relevant to the main points of the article. There was only one spelling mistake found in the entirety of the article. I feel the "food defense event types" section could have been removed or broken down to be more concise and the parts removed maybe used later on.

Images and Media


Only one image was used, no caption was provided and did not help in the understanding of the topic. There were no captions provided, thoroughly reading the text was required for even minimal context of the picture. As no proper citation was used I don't think the image adheres to wikipedia's copyright regulations, perhaps a caption would have avoided this.

Checking the talk page
There are no conversations going on behind the scenes of this article. The article is a C-Class article. It's not a part of any specific WikiProjects but is under the scope of the WikiProject Food and Drink.

Overall impressions
The article provides a good start to the topic of food defense. While the scope of the content is directed predominantly towards that of the United States there is plenty of room for information of other jurisdiction's practices to be added. The article could be improved by the addition of content by other editors or a revision from the original editor. Maybe additional editors could help trim off some of the fat and make the article more concise. Overall it is an underdeveloped article would good groundwork that could use a diversified input.

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