CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Program

摘要 扩大国家实验室应对动物性食品/药物相关疾病的能力 或其他需要浪涌容量测试的大型动物食品/饲料紧急事件 被牵连的诊断或动物性食品样本，以确保食品安全 人类。食品安全通过生物和化学直接影响食物链 动物饲料中的污染物 布雷西特兽医中心是一家完全认可(AAVLD)的动物疾病诊断中心 实验室位于肯塔基州西部，地理位置优越。 这项拨款申请的目的是支持Breathitt兽医的活动 FDA CVM Vet-LRN兽医诊断实验室计划中心。美国食品和药物管理局 VET-LRN赠款计划是一个互惠互利的机会，在这个机会中，实验室 获得支持以推进其科学范围，FDA CVM增加到国家 实验室容量。通过合作协议提供的资金将用于 提供FDA兽医要求的设备、用品、培训和水平测试- LRN按年率计算，为期五年。 这项建议的具体目标是： 1)加强与兽医诊断实验室有关的工作协调 食品供应的安全； 2)对技术人员进行培训、装备和能力测试，以便按规定进行测试 确保食品供应安全所必需的； 3)参与Vet LIRN全基因组测序计划，提供 细菌样本作为来源实验室。

Abstract Expanded national laboratory capacity to respond to animal food/drug related illnesses or other large-scale animal food/feed emergency events requiring surge capacity testing of implicated diagnostic or animal food samples is required to ensure food safety in humans. Food safety directly affects the food chain through biological and chemical contaminants in animal feeds The Breathitt Veterinary Center is a fully accredited (AAVLD) animal disease diagnostic laboratory strategically located in Western Kentucky. The objective of this grant application is to support activity by the Breathitt Veterinary Center in the FDA CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Program. The FDA Vet-LRN grant program is a mutually beneficial opportunity in which the laboratory receives support to advance its scientific scope and the FDA CVM adds to the national laboratory capacity. Funding provided through a cooperative agreement will be used to provide equipment, supplies, training, and proficiency testing requested by the FDA Vet- LRN on an annualized basis for a five-year period. The Specific Aims of this proposal are: 1) To strengthen coordination of veterinary diagnostic laboratory efforts as related to the safety of the food supply; 2) To train, equip and proficiency test technicians to perform such testing as is necessary to ensure the safety of the food supply; 3) To participate in the Vet LIRN Whole Genome Sequencing Project by providing bacterial samples as a Source Laboratory.