Enhancing the Capacity and Capability of Human Food and Environmental Testing Laboratory at the Texas Department of State Health Services: Overall

整体项目总结 实验室灵活资助模式(PAR-20-105) 德克萨斯州卫生服务部实验室服务科 (LSS)与食品和药物管理局(FDA)、 疾病控制和预防(CDC)和州监管机构--DSHS消费者 保护司(CPD)，以确保德克萨斯州的食品和食品安全。作为项目的一部分 综合食品安全系统，LSS的目标是促进和改善食品检测 德克萨斯州的监视、检查和调查。 在这笔拨款的资助下，CPD将继续与LSS建立伙伴关系 作为LSS抽样组织。作为官方抽样计划的一部分，LSS将测试 在微生物人类食品产品检测轨道下，每年约有500个样本 在赠款的5年期间内的每一年。在第三年，额外增加了100 化学样本将被添加到化学人类食品的年度抽样计划中 产品测试赛道。虽然不是官方抽样计划的一部分，但CPD也将收集50 放射化学样品每年检测放射性污染以及 人类食品样品中的放射性核素。为样本收集提供的资金 CPD在样品采集过程中产生的费用将仅用于与以下项目相关的费用 在人类食品检测轨道下收集的样本。 LSS每年识别数百个食源性致病菌群，通过使用 全基因组测序(WGS)，并计划每年对至少400株沙门氏菌进行测序， 单核细胞增多性李斯特菌、产志贺毒素大肠杆菌(STEC)及其他相关细菌 食品和环境样品中的分离物来自FDA National等来源 抗菌素耐药性监测系统(NARMS)肉类项目和大学与检测 和研究实验室。目前，LSS不对沙门氏菌进行qPCR筛查。 该项目的成果将通过以下方式加强法律援助的能力和能力 新方法可用于德克萨斯州食品/环境样本的常规监测测试。 LSS打算通过增强两个数据系统来促进与FDA的数据交换 使实验室能够通过国家食品安全数据交换提交样品分析数据 集成或ORA合作伙伴门户采用，允许更便捷的决策/行动 促进更好的公共卫生。

Overall Project Summary Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (PAR-20-105) The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Laboratory Services Section (LSS) works in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the state regulatory body, DSHS Consumer Protection Division (CPD), to ensure food and food products in Texas are safe. As a part of an integrated food safety system, the goals of the LSS are to facilitate and improve food testing surveillance, inspection, and investigation in the State of Texas. With the funding provided by this grant, CPD will continue partnership with LSS by acting as the LSS sampling organization. As part of the official sampling plan, LSS will test approximately 500 samples per year under the Microbiology Human Food Product Testing track for each year within the 5-year period of the grant. During the third year, an additional 100 chemistry samples will be added to the annual sampling plan under the Chemistry Human Food Product Testing track. Although not a part of the official sampling plan, CPD will also collect 50 Radiochemistry samples annually test for the radioactive contamination along with identities of radionuclides in human food product samples. Funding provided to cover sample collection costs incurred during sample collection by CPD will only be used for costs associated with samples collected under the Human Food Product Testing tracks. LSS identifies hundreds of foodborne bacterial pathogen clusters each year by using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and plans to annually sequence at least 400 Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) and other related bacterial isolates from food and environmental samples from sources such as the FDA National Antimicrobial Resistant Monitoring System (NARMS) meat program and universities with testing and research laboratories. Currently, LSS does not perform qPCR screening for Salmonella. The outcome of this project would enhance the capacity and capabilities of LSS by making this new method available for routine surveillance testing on food/environmental samples in Texas. LSS intends to facilitate data exchanges with FDA by enhancing both data systems to enable the laboratory to submit sample analysis data via National Food Safety Data Exchange integration or ORA Partner Portal adoption allowing for more expedient decisions/actions to promote better public health.