# Enhancing Human and Animal Food Testing in North Carolina in Support of an Integrated Food Safety System: Microbiology Track 2

> **NIH FDA U19** · NC STATE DEPT OF AGRI AND CONSUMER SERV · 2020 · $205,000

## Abstract

Research & Related Other Project Information 
Project Summary/Abstract 
Component: Microbiology Track 2 
The Food & Drug Protection Division (FDPD) within the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & 
Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) will support a nationally integrated and prevention-focused food and 
feed safety system by increasing sample testing activities and making data available to state and federal 
partners. FDPD Laboratory has partnered with FDPD’s Food Program, North Carolina’s manufactured 
food regulatory program, to identify commodity-hazard pairs of national and state significance and 
develop surveillance programs to better characterize the risks these commodity-hazard pairs pose to 
public health and consumer confidence. In Year 1, FDPD will collect and analyze 500 nut- and seed- 
butter samples for Listeria spp. Because the FDPD Food Program has fully implemented FDA’s 
Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards and proposed laboratory analyses are included in 
FDPD Laboratory’s scope of ISO 17025 accreditation, FDPD is confident that all data submitted to FDA 
will be accurate, precise, and actionable. Data packages for pathogen-positive samples will be 
submitted promptly to FDA, and FDPD will collaborate with FDA to identify and implement appropriate 
response strategies. Non-violative data will be reported to FDA quarterly to support risk evaluations of 
each hazard-commodity pair.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10172325
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007091-01
- **Recipient organization:** NC STATE DEPT OF AGRI AND CONSUMER SERV
- **Principal Investigator:** Reagan Converse
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $205,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10172325

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10172325, Enhancing Human and Animal Food Testing in North Carolina in Support of an Integrated Food Safety System: Microbiology Track 2 (1U19FD007091-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10172325. Licensed CC0.

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