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 发展组织继续努力参与应对粮食紧急情况 网络(蕨类)，为多达500个样本提供微生物测试 每年一次。FERN合作协议旨在针对州、地方、 和部落蕨类实验室提供更多的食物样本分析 暴发或其他需要激增能力的大型食品紧急事件 对涉案食品样本的检测。这些样本可能涉及食品和/或 与食品有关的环境样本，将由联邦、州、 也不是当地机构。样本的数量和样本的调度将被完成 由蕨类国家计划办公室(NPO)与州/地方实验室协调 当局。联邦或州的监视任务也将是 用于实验室分析的样本。目标是最终解决日益增长的威胁 通过自然发生的病原体暴发来保障食品安全 以及蓄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.