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

> **NIH FDA U19** · NC STATE DEPT OF AGRI AND CONSUMER SERV · 2020 · $80,000

## Abstract

Research & Related Other Project Information 
Project Summary/Abstract 
Component: Chemistry 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 100 candy samples for 
lead. 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 violative 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:** 10172327
- **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:** $80,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10172327

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10172327, Enhancing Human and Animal Food Testing in North Carolina in Support of an Integrated Food Safety System: Chemistry Track 2 (1U19FD007091-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10172327. Licensed CC0.

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