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

项目摘要 实验室管理局，像许多其他州公共卫生实验室一样，仍然 寻求更多资源以进一步发展其放射治疗的能力和能力 食品安全和监督监测。马里兰州公共卫生实验室被指定为 作为LRN Level 2实验室。这项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。它会 L S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，一个人口超过600万的地区。它是一个人的家 全国最大的海上和机场，并在三个月的时间里包围哥伦比亚特区 两侧，包括国家首都地区的主要部分。马里兰州面临着一系列 辐射挑战，无论是人为的还是自然发生的，都可以在 我们的食物供应。它给食品保护带来了巨大的挑战，因为 城乡环境和活动。它在卡尔弗特悬崖有一座核电站， 与宾夕法尼亚州接壤的桃树底有一座核电站。此外， 该州的中部和东部位于三个核电的摄取途径区域内 植物。就自然来源而言，马里兰州西部位于马塞卢斯页岩之上 沿着西弗吉尼亚州西部狭长地带延伸的编队，连接西弗吉尼亚州和 宾夕法尼亚州，已知的放射性来源，也是天然水力压裂的潜在地点 天然气回收。切萨皮克湾的东岸存在潜在的氡和其他问题 马里兰州用于提供灌溉用水的含水层释放出的放射性核素。 这个国家既有大量具有不同文化背景的民族人口，也有固定的 高水平的国际和州际旅行者。 认识到该州居民因饮酒可能受到的影响而面临的风险 在水和食物供应方面，我们需要通过进行环境保护来建立基线数据 监测各种农业、采矿和制造业的辐射 存在潜在暴露于环境辐射危害风险的社区。 实验室管理局已经选择了一份放射性化合物清单来检测和 对马里兰州感兴趣的食品进行衡量。通过此应用程序， 政府当局建议进一步发展和维持食物安全和监察 监测食品中的放射性污染。为了支持这个合作社 协议，实验室管理局将把这项提案的很大一部分 为了发展方法，愿意参加实验室准备演习，演练， 和PTS，食品应急响应，获得并保持所有测试的ISO 17025认证 用于此项目，在FERN被激活时重定向常规测试，以便更好地服务 弗恩的使命，并为工作人员提供适当的资金以进行培训或 会议/会议。 行政当局还提议通过招聘以下人员来开发和维持该项目 雇佣合同制员工，购买仪器和设备，实验室用品，开发和 实施抽样计划，并进行项目评估和评估。实验室 政府当局建议在第一年进行这项计划，所需经费为240,000元 并在第二年至第五年继续进行，预算为96万美元。 1

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