Human Food Product Testing

PAR-20-105实验室灵活资助模式（LFFM） （U19）化学人类食品测试

PAR-20-105 Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) (U19) Chemistry Human Food Product Testing Track Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services Project Summary Principal Investigators: Christopher Waggener, Ph.D. Project Director: Shane Wyatt Project Summary The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) is the public health laboratory for the Commonwealth of Virginia and offers a wide variety of laboratory testing services for state and federal agencies, local governments and other states in support of public health, environmental protection, and emergency response. DCLS provides surveillance and emergency response testing of food samples for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) Food Safety Program by offering nearly comprehensive testing of food samples by microbiology, chemistry, and radiochemical methods. DCLS is a long-term participating partner in the FDA Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) and is capable of providing screening for toxic compounds in foods by GC-MS, LC-MS, LC-HRMS, and ICP-MS. In addition, DCLS can perform targeted analysis to confirm the identity of adulterated compounds and quantify their presence as adulterants. DCLS is also the designated laboratory for food regulatory testing and provides surveillance and complaint testing for pesticide residues, aflatoxins, filth, toxic metals, food colors, suspected adulterations or the presence of natural toxic compounds. DCLS proposes to continue to support ongoing testing in these areas and complete a study of concentrated and diluted juices for the presence of toxic elements utilizing the FERN method CHE.0009.