Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation and Whole Genome Sequencing for State Food Testing Laboratories

项目概要/摘要： 纽约州农业和市场部（NYSDAM）有一个昂贵的食物 安全检查和监管实验室测试计划。纽约州食品 实验室（食品实验室）是NYSDAM的一个部门，其使命是提供专家 最先进的分析测试，支持纽约州的食品安全计划。的 食物化验所透过食物测试，为食物安全及 检验、牛奶控制和乳品服务。它是主要的维修实验室， 纽约制造食品监管计划，并通过ISO/IEC 17025认证 标准食品实验室有全面的测试计划， 食品和饮料中的病原体和化学残留物/有毒元素。 如获资助参加比赛A，食物化验所须维持一套品质管理系统， 符合ISO/IEC 17025的管理和技术要求，并继续 由认可的认可机构认可。它还将继续扩大 我们认证范围内的方法和技术，支持实验室工作人员的培训， 并保持实验室质量保证部门现有的工作人员资源。 如果获得竞赛B的资助，纽约州立食品实验室将维持研究 与CFSAN签署GenomeTrakr网络合作协议。它将继续 测序四百（400）或更多食源性相关细菌分离株的混合物， 与FDA CFSAN进行实时协调，将结果（包括元数据）存款NCBI- 美国国立卫生研究院策划的国家肠道病原体基因组数据库。它还将寻求与以下方面的伙伴关系： 大学、政府机构和其他利益相关者支持分离株的收集。 NYSDAM完全支持FDA的综合食品安全体系倡议， 参与这些旨在改善和优化国家食品的合作项目， 安全系统

Project Summary/Abstract: The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) has an expansive food safety inspection and regulatory laboratory testing program. The New York State Food Laboratory (Food Laboratory), a division within the NYSDAM, has the mission to provide expert state of the art analytical testing in support of food safety programs in New York State. The Food Laboratory, through food testing, provides support to the divisions of Food Safety and Inspection, and Milk Control and Dairy Services. It is the primary servicing laboratory for the New York manufactured food regulatory program and is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. The Food Laboratory has comprehensive testing programs for both foodborne pathogens and chemical residues/toxic elements in food and beverages. If funded for Competition A, the Food Laboratory will maintain a quality management system compliant with the managerial and technical requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 and continue to be accredited by a recognized accreditation body. It will also continue to expand the number of methods and technologies within our scope of accreditation, support training of laboratory staff, and maintain current staff resources to the laboratory Quality Assurance Unit. If funded for Competition B, New York State Food Laboratory will maintain the Research Collaboration Agreement with CFSAN for the GenomeTrakr network. It will continue to sequence a mixture of four hundred (400) or more foodborne related bacterial isolates and in real-time coordination with FDA CFSAN, deposit results, including the metadata, in to the NCBI- NIH curated national database for enteric pathogen genomes. It will also seek partnership with universities, government agencies, and other stakeholders to support the collection of isolates. The NYSDAM fully supports FDA’s initiative of an integrated food safety system and is engaged in participating in these collaborative projects that aim to improve and optimize the nation’s food safety system.