Enhancing the Capability and Capacity of Human and Animal Food Testing Laboratories within West Virginia under the Laboratory Flexible Funding Model

西弗吉尼亚州农业部 实验室灵活的资助模式 PAR-20-105 摘要-总体 食品监督检测是保护消费者和国家利益的重要组成部分 食品供应。为了检测并消除供应链中受污染的食品， 对于农业机构来说，能够快速、准确地测试各种作物非常重要。 病原体。拟议项目将提高整体测试能力和能力 西弗吉尼亚州的食品测试。这种缓解措施将直接降低食品受污染的风险 到达端点消费者。 西弗吉尼亚州农业部 (WVDA) 将专门致力于加强 西弗吉尼亚州人类和动物食品检测实验室的能力和能力，以支持 综合食品安全体系。 WVDA 将提供增强的样本收集和测试 微生物学和化学领域的产品已获得 ISO 认证并被 美国食品和药物管理局。 WVDA 还将开发支持和扩大相关测试的特殊项目。 WVDA 还旨在加强和改善监测活动的协作 FDA 和其他实验室合作伙伴之间的合作。 西弗吉尼亚州农业部是主要监管机构 人类和动物食品检测，也是检测的主要监管机构 西弗吉尼亚州的加工食品 (MFRPS) 和动物食品 (AFRPS)。 实验室拥有 18 种获得 ISO 17025 认证的方法。该机构已 自 2005 年以来一直是粮食紧急响应网络 (FERN) 的活跃成员。 实验室已完成方法开发、单一和多实验室方法 FERN 的验证和监测活动。 WVDA 积极开展食品分析 也可用于微生物学和化学食品防御目的。 WVDA 已经证明，凭借基础设施和人员经验， 设施、ISO 认证、研究项目、方法开发和正在进行的 监督项目表明它致力于完成这一轨道的目标。这个项目 将增强人类食品监测能力和 WVDA 的能力，并帮助支持 加强与FDA的合作，建立一体化的食品安全体系。

West Virginia Department of Agriculture Laboratory Flexible Funding Model PAR-20-105 Abstract- Overall Food surveillance testing is an integral part of protecting consumers and the nation’s food supply. In order to detect and remove contaminated food from the supply chain, it is important for agricultural agencies to be able to quickly and accurately test for a wide variety of pathogens. The proposed project will increase the overall testing capabilities and capacities of food testing in West Virginia. This mitigation will directly decrease the risk of contaminated foods from reaching endpoint consumers. The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) will specifically aim to enhance the capability and capacity of WV’s human and animal food testing laboratories in support of an integrated food safety system. The WVDA will provide enhanced sample collections and test offerings in the fields of microbiology and chemistry that are ISO accredited and accepted by the FDA. The WVDA will also develop special projects that will support and expand related testing. The WVDA also aims to strengthen and improve the collaboration of surveillance activities between the FDA and other laboratory partners. The West Virginia Department of Agriculture serves as the primary regulatory agency for human and animal food product testing and is also the primary regulatory agency for the testing of manufactured foods (MFRPS) and animal food (AFRPS) in WV. The laboratories have 18 methods that are ISO 17025 accredited. The agency has been an active member of the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) since 2005. The laboratories have completed method development, single and multi-laboratory method validations, and surveillance activities for FERN. The WVDA actively conducts analysis of foods for microbiology and chemistry food defense purposes as well. The WVDA has demonstrated that with the infrastructure and experience of personnel, the facility, ISO accreditation, research projects, method developments, and on-going surveillance projects that it is committed to completing the objectives of this track. This project will enhance the human food surveillance capability and capacity of the WVDA and help support an integrated food safety system by strengthening cooperation with the FDA.