ISO 17025 Maintenance and Whole Genome Sequencing for State Food Testing Laboratory

德克萨斯州卫生服务部（DSHS）是一个设备齐全的实验室， 雇用超过十二名分析师进行食品测试，并由四名团队负责数据审查。目前， DSHS实验室已经制定了监测绞肉的监测计划，并准备 吃肉类产品，牛奶厂和奶牛场产品，海鲜产品，和海湾水， 生物有机体和其他有毒物质的存在。DSHS有能力 应对与食品有关的紧急情况，包括疫情。 该项目的目标是通过以下方式推进国家食品安全系统的目标： 1.确保代表国家进行微生物和化学食品分析 制造食品监管计划，是在一个范围内进行 国际标准化组织（ISO）/国际电工 IEC 17025认证实验室 2.加强实验室和国家制造食品之间的合作 监管方案; 3.增加为监测而收集和分析的州样本数量 每年的目的; 4.建立更强有力的国际病原体追溯快速监测系统， 通过GenomeTrackr网络，使用所有食物的最小元数据字段集， 环境隔离。 这项提议包括为以下活动供资： 1.维护和加强ISO 17025认证的分析范围，并确保所有ISO 符合标准的员工合格的工作人员，并参加批准的 熟练程度测试程序。 2.继续建立与国家制造食品计划的关系， 采购认可食物测试所需的物料，以支持抽样计划; 3.确保抽样协议计划概述每年至少75个样本， 测试; 4.聘请一位新的分子生物学家，继续开发全基因组测序 (WGS)对于基因组跟踪项目，确保所有元数据字段都已完成。

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is a well-equipped laboratory that employs over twelve analysts for food testing, and four team leads for data review. Currently, the DSHS Laboratory has surveillance programs in place to monitor ground meat and ready to eat meat products, milk plant and dairy farm products, seafood products, and bay water for the presence of biological organisms and other toxic substances. DSHS has the capability to respond to food related emergencies including outbreaks. The objective of this project is to advance the goal of a national food safety system by: 1. Ensuring microbiological and chemical food analyses, performed on behalf of the state manufactured food regulatory programs, are conducted within the scope of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 17025 accredited laboratory; 2. Strengthening the collaboration between the laboratories and state manufactured food regulatory programs; 3. Increasing the number of state samples collected and analyzed for surveillance purposes annually; 4. Developing a stronger international rapid surveillance system for pathogen traceback, through the GenomeTrackr network, using a minimum set of metadata fields for all food and environmental isolates. This proposal includes funding for: 1. Maintain and enhance scope of analyses ISO 17025 accredited and ensuring all ISO standards are meet by employee qualified staff and participating in an approved proficiency test program. 2. Continuing to build on the relationship with the state manufactured food program by purchasing supplies for accredited food testing to support the sampling plan; 3. Ensuring a sampling agreement plan outlines a minimum of 75 samples per year to be tested; 4. Hiring a new molecular biologist who will continue to develop whole genome sequencing (WGS) for the Genome Trackr project, ensuring all metadata fields are completed.