Wadsworth Center's Chemical Testing for Food Defense and Capability Development (Discipline B: Chemistry, Analytical Track 1)

项目摘要--食品防御 沃兹沃斯中心环境健康科学部(DEHS)是主要的公众 纽约州卫生实验室，用于分析环境样品和临床中的有毒化学物质 标本，它是化学品泄漏、核事故和与恐怖主义有关的主要反应实验室 该州发生的事件。世界卫生组织卫生部参加了粮食应急网络(FERN) 该计划自启动以来一直是国家一级的计划，并已发展出相当大的应急能力 根据一项蕨类合作协议监测食品供应的化学和放射性污染 与联邦机构USDA-FSIS和FDA的计划(CAP)。 世界卫生组织的卫生部提议参加FDA资助的2020-2025年灵活资助实验室 B学科化学模型(LFFM)-轨道1-食品防御提供以下分析服务：(1) 参加FDA要求的食品监测活动和/或年度演习，如支持 并保持准备状态；(2)参加国家特别安全活动(NSSE)，包括政治会议， 大型体育赛事和开幕式赛事；(3)保持准备，以迅速应对可疑或 确认涉及人或动物性食品的故意污染事件，即确保实验室分析人员保持 他们的培训和能力，所有仪器都处于正常工作状态，以及必要的试剂和用品 (4)参加与怀疑或可信的食品供应威胁有关的检测 根据FDA的要求，怀疑有化学试剂；以及(5)参加蕨类地区和蕨类广泛活动 电话会议和活动。世界卫生组织的科学家还将开发和改进分析方法(I)，以 向联邦机构提供食品防御检测和质量结果，以及(Ii)增强应急能力 以及浪涌能力，并在FDA指导下在现场激活活动期间应用技术能力。我们 还计划将我们的ISO-17025认证扩展到包括我们的食品化学方法。

PROJECT SUMMARY - Food Defense The Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) of the Wadsworth Center (WC) is the principal public health laboratory of New York State for the analysis of toxic chemicals in environmental samples and clinical specimens, and it is the primary response laboratory for chemical spills, nuclear accidents and terrorism-related incidents in the state. The DEHS of the WC has participated in the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) program at the national level since its inception and has developed substantial emergency capability for monitoring of chemical and radioactive contamination of food supplies under a FERN cooperative agreement program (CAP) with both Federal Agency USDA-FSIS and FDA. The DEHS of the WC is proposing to participate in the FDA funded 2020-2025 Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) in Discipline B Chemistry - Track 1 - Food Defense to provide following analytical services: (1) participation in FDA-requested food surveillance activities and/or annual exercises such as FERN PTs to support and maintain readiness; (2) participation in national special security event (NSSE) including political conventions, large sporting events, and inaugural events; (3) maintain preparedness to respond rapidly to a suspected or confirmed intentional contamination event involving human or animal food, i.e., ensuring bench analysts maintain their training and competency, all instrumentation is in working order, and the necessary reagents and supplies are available; (4) participation in testing associated with suspected or credible threats to the food supply where a chemical agent is suspected, as requested by FDA; and (5) participation in FERN regional and FERN wide conference calls and activities. Scientists at the WC will also develop and improve analytical methods (i) to provide food defense testing and quality results to the federal agencies, and (ii) to enhance emergency capability and surge capacity and apply technical capabilities during a live activation event following FDA guidance. We also plan to extend our ISO-17025 accreditation to include our food chemistry methods.