FDA FERN Microbiological Cooperative Agreement Continuation Program (U18)

项目摘要 该项目由密歇根州农业和农村部组成 发展署继续努力参与粮食紧急反应 网络（FERN），提供多达500个样品的微生物检测 每年一次。FERN合作协议的目的是针对州，地方， 和部落蕨类植物实验室提供更多的样本分析，在事件的食物 需要快速部署能力的疫情或其他大规模粮食紧急事件 检测受影响的食物样本。这些样本可能涉及食物和/或 与食品有关的环境样本，将由联邦，州， 或当地机构。将完成样本数量和样本时间安排 由FERN国家计划办公室（NPO）与州/地方实验室协调 当局联邦或州的监视任务也将是一个来源， 用于实验室分析的样本。目标是最终解决日益严重的威胁 通过自然发生的病原体爆发对食品安全和保障的影响 和故意的微生物恐怖主义活动

Project Summary This project comprises the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's continued effort to participate in the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN), by providing microbiological testing for up to 500 samples yearly. The FERN cooperative agreements are intended to target state, local, and tribal FERN labs to provide increased sample analyses in the event of food outbreaks or other large-scale food emergency events requiring surge capacity testing of implicated food samples. These samples could involve foods and/or environmental samples related to foods, and will be collected by Federal, State, or local agencies. Numbers of samples and scheduling of samples will be done by the FERN National Program Office (NPO) in coordination with State/Local lab authorities. Federal or State surveillance assignments will also be a source of samples for lab analysis. The goal is to ultimately address the increasing threat to food safety and security through both naturally occurring pathogen outbreaks and intentional microbiological terrorism efforts.