Enhancing Capability and Capacity of the Maryland Radiation Laboratory to Respond to Food Radiological Incidents and Provide Continuing Radiological Surveillance

增强马里兰州辐射实验室应对食品放射性事件并提供持续放射监测的能力和能力

• 批准号: 9134644
• 负责人: Prince A. Kassim
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9134644
• 关键词: Enhancing; Capability; Capacity; Maryland; Radiation

PROJECT ABSTRACT The Laboratories Administration, like many other state public health laboratories, is still seeking additional resources to further develop its capabilities and capacities for radiological food safety and surveillance monitoring. Maryland’s Public Health Laboratory is designated as an LRN Level 2 Lab. This cooperative agreement would support the national program goals and that of Maryland’s emergency radiological food testing and surveillance program. It would a l s o provide the only routine radiological lab services within 90 miles of Baltimore and the National Capital Region, a region with a population of over 6MM people. It is home to one of the largest sea- and airport in the Nation and, by surrounding the District of Columbia on three sides, includes a major portion of the National Capital Region. Maryland faces a range of radiological challenges, both man-made and naturally occurring that can manifest themselves in our food supply. It presents significant challenges for food protection with an intimate mix of urban and rural environments and activities. It has one nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs and one nuclear power plant on its border with Pennsylvania at Peach Bottom. Additionally, the central and eastern half of the State lies within the ingestion pathway zones of three nuclear power plants. In terms of naturally occurring sources, western Maryland sits upon the Marcellus Shale formation that runs along the western panhandle of the State joining West Virginia and Pennsylvania, a known source of radioactivity which is also a potential fracking site for natural gas recovery. The Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay has a potential issue with radon and other radionuclides released from the aquifers that are used to provide irrigation water in Maryland. The State has both a significant ethnic population of diverse cultural backgrounds and a regular high level of both international and interstate travelers. Recognizing the risk to the state’s residents due to the potential impacts to our drinking water and food supply, we need to establish baseline data by conducting environmental surveillance monitoring for radiation from various agricultural, mining, and manufacturing communities where there is potentially the risk of exposure to environmental radiological hazards. The Laboratories Administration has chosen a list of radiological compounds to detect and measure in food commodities that are of interest to Maryland. By this application, the Administration proposes to further develop and maintain a food safety and surveillance monitoring of food commodities for radiological contamination. In support of this cooperative agreement, the Laboratories Administration will focus a substantial portion of this proposal towards developing methods, willingly participate i n laboratory preparedness exercises, drills, and PTs, food emergency responses, obtain and maintain ISO 17025 accreditation for all tests utilized for this project, redirect routine testing when FERN is activated in order to better serve FERN’s mission, and allocate appropriate funding for staff to travel to training or conferences/meetings. The Administration further propose to develop and maintain this project by recruiting and hiring a contractual staff, purchase instrument and equipment, lab supplies, develop and implement a sampling plan, and conduct project evaluation and assessment. The Laboratories Administration proposes to carry out this project in Year 1 with a requested funding of $240,000 and continue in Years 2 through 5 with a budget of $960,000. 1

项目摘要 实验室管理局，像许多其他国家的公共卫生实验室，仍然是 寻求额外资源以进一步发展其放射性能力 食品安全和监督监测。马里兰州的公共卫生实验室被指定为 LRN Level 2实验室该合作协议将支持国家计划目标 以及马里兰州的紧急放射性食品检测和监测项目。它将 a l s o提供巴尔的摩90英里范围内唯一的常规放射实验室服务， 国家首都地区，一个拥有超过600万人口的地区。它是一个 全国最大的海港和机场，环绕着哥伦比亚特区， 包括国家首都地区的主要部分。马里兰州面临着一系列 人为和自然发生的放射性挑战， 我们的食物供应。它对粮食保护提出了重大挑战， 城市和农村的环境和活动。它在卡尔弗特悬崖有一座核电站， 一个核电站在其与宾夕法尼亚州的边界桃底。另夕h 该州中部和东部的一半位于三个核电厂的摄入通道区内， 植物就自然发生的资源而言，马里兰州西部坐落在马塞勒斯页岩上 形成运行沿着西部狭长地带的国家加入西弗吉尼亚州， 宾夕法尼亚州，一个已知的放射性来源，也是一个潜在的水力压裂地点， 气体回收切萨皮克湾的东海岸有一个潜在的氡和其他问题， 马里兰州用于提供灌溉用水的蓄水层释放的放射性核素。 该国既有大量文化背景各异的少数民族人口， 高水平的国际和州际旅客。 认识到由于对我们饮酒的潜在影响而给该州居民带来的风险 水和食物供应，我们需要建立基线数据， 对来自各种农业、采矿业和制造业的辐射进行监督监测 存在暴露于环境辐射危害的潜在风险的社区。 实验室管理局选择了一份放射性化合物清单进行检测， 衡量马里兰州感兴趣的食品商品。通过此应用程序， 政府建议进一步发展及维持食物安全及监察机制 监测食品的放射性污染。为了支持这个合作社， 根据协议，实验室管理局将重点关注这一建议的大部分内容， 对开发方法，愿意参加在实验室准备演习，演习， 和PT，食品应急反应，获得并保持所有测试的ISO 17025认证 用于本项目，当FERN被激活时重定向例行测试，以便更好地服务于 FERN的使命，并为工作人员前往培训或 大会/会议。 行政当局还建议，通过征聘 并聘请合同制员工，购置仪器设备、实验室用品，开发和 实施抽样方案，进行项目评估考核。实验室 政府当局建议在第一年进行这项计划，要求拨款24万元。 并在第二年到第五年继续进行，预算为96万美元。 1