Expansion of Pennsylvania's State Food and Feed Laboratory Services in Response to the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, Laboratory Accreditation Rule, and the FDA Integrated Food Safety System

摘要 作为一个拥有近1300万人口和61亿经济价值的大国， 宾夕法尼亚州农业，对宾夕法尼亚州来说最重要的是拥有一个专门的实验室 对食品和饲料产品的分析，以便提供关于 英联邦生产的产品的安全性和完整性。这一知识的完整性是 在制定公共政策和保护公共健康方面为决策者提供信息至关重要。 2015年，宾夕法尼亚州农业部食品安全局实验室处 和实验室服务(“实验室”)开始参与食品和药物管理局的 动物饲料监管计划标准合作协议计划，主要目标是 获得国际标准化组织/国际电工委员会17025标准的认证，该标准定义了测试和 校准实验室。2020年，该实验室将实现这一目标，并期待 扩大其认证范围，以更好地支持其食品和饲料监管计划， 反过来，支持FDA在2011年食品安全法案下创建的食品安全综合体系 现代化法案。为此，该实验室将重点放在四个目标上，这四个目标对智能交通系统的发展至关重要 服务：1)加强质量管理和持续改进的利用；2) 扩大其认证和检测能力的范围，3)建立和扩大人工食品 和饲料产品检测用于监管目的，以及4)继续发展持久的实验室 合伙企业。

Abstract As a large state with a population of nearly 13 million, and an economic value of 6.1 billion in Pennsylvania agriculture, it is of primary importance for Pennsylvania to possess a laboratory dedicated to the analysis of food and feed products in order to provide defensible knowledge concerning the safety and integrity of the products produced by the commonwealth. The integrity of this knowledge is critical to inform decision makers in the production of public policy and protection of public health. In 2015 the Laboratory Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services (“Laboratory”) began its participation in the Food and Drug Administration’s Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standard Cooperative Agreement Program with the primary goal of achieving accreditation to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard, that defines the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. In 2020, the Laboratory is set to achieve this goal and is looking toward expanding the scope of its accreditation to better support its Food and Feed regulatory programs, and, in turn, support the FDA Integrated Food Safety System created under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act. To do this, the Laboratory is focused on four goals pivotal to the development of its services: 1) To strengthen its utilization of quality management and continuous improvement, 2) to expand its scope of accreditation and testing capabilities, 3) to establish and expand manufactured food and feed product testing for regulatory purposes, and 4) to continue to develop lasting laboratory partnerships.