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

总体项目摘要 实验室灵活资助模式（PAR-20-105） 德克萨斯州卫生服务部（DSHS）实验室服务科 (LSS)与美国食品和药物管理局（FDA）， 疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）和国家监管机构DSHS消费者 保护司（CPD），以确保食品和食品在得克萨斯州是安全的。作为一个 综合食品安全体系，LSS的目标是促进和改善食品检测 在德克萨斯州进行监视、检查和调查。 有了这笔赠款提供的资金，CPD将继续与LSS合作， 作为LSS抽样组织。作为官方抽样计划的一部分，LSS将测试 微生物学人类食品产品测试轨道每年约500个样本 在补助金的五年期间内每年。第三年，新增100名 化学样品将被添加到人类食品化学项下的年度采样计划中。 产品测试跟踪。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沿着的身份 人类食品样品中的放射性核素。为样本收集提供的资金 CPD在样本采集期间产生的费用仅用于与以下相关的费用： 在人类食品产品测试轨道下收集的样品。 LSS每年通过以下方法识别数百个食源性细菌病原体集群： 全基因组测序（WGS），并计划每年至少测序400沙门氏菌， 单核细胞增生李斯特菌、产滋贺毒素E.大肠杆菌（STEC）和其他相关细菌 从食品和环境样品中分离的菌株， 抗菌素耐药性监测系统（NARMS）肉类计划和大学测试 和研究实验室。目前，LSS不对沙门氏菌进行qPCR筛查。 这一项目的成果将通过以下方式提高后勤支助事务处的能力： 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计划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 集成或采用ORA合作伙伴门户，从而可以做出更有利的决策/采取更有利的行动， 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.