# Track 2 Micro - Human Food Testing

> **NIH FDA U19** · FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF AGRIC/CONSUM SRVCS · 2020 · $203,000

## Abstract

Discipline A: Microbiology 
Analytical Track 2: Human Food Product Testing 
Project Summary/Abstract: 
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Division of Food Safety 
Laboratories achieved accreditation in 2007 and maintains A2LA accreditation to ISO/IEC 
17025:2017 for the specific tests listed in A2LA certificates 2534.01, 2534.02 and 2534.03 
(available at www.A2LA.org). The Division has the responsibility for carrying out its duties or 
support functions as directed by the following Florida Statutes Chapters: 500, 502, 583, 586, and 
601. The Division of Food Safety is responsible for assuring the public of a safe and wholesome 
food supply. This is accomplished through the permitting and inspection of food establishments; 
inspection and evaluation of food and dairy products; and the performance of biological and 
chemical laboratory testing on a variety of food and food related products and dairy. As part of 
the FERN Microbiology CAP program, the Biology Section (DFS-Bio) is tasked with both response 
to national food emergencies and routine food surveillance as directed by FERN NPO. 
The Division of Food Safety Laboratories are applying for the Funding Opportunity titled: 
Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM), announcement number PAR-20-105, with 
anticipation of funding from 2020 through 2025 for enhancing the capacity and capabilities of 
human food product testing in the Microbiology. The Laboratories are currently funded under the 
Florida Microbiology and Chemistry FDA FERN Program, 2015 – 2020 (5U18FD005506-05). As 
the primary regulatory food testing laboratory for Florida, DFS-Bio works with the Division's 
Bureau of Food Inspection to conduct microbiological food analyses on behalf of the state’s 
manufactured food regulatory programs. The DFS-Bio Microbiology program has been an active 
funded laboratory since the inception of the FERN microbiology program in 2004 and has 
conducted surveillance for FERN and the FDA. DFS-Bio participated in the 2014-15 FDA Avocado 
Surveillance Pilot Project and has undertaken surveillance as part of the FDA FERN MCAP for 
each of the past 5 years. Additionally, the Division has worked with FDA on numerous food safety 
matters including environmental sampling and recalls of contaminated food commodities. 
The Division of Food Safety Laboratories are willing and able to participate in this opportunity and 
are fully committed to increase the analytical capability and capacity of our nation’s food testing 
laboratories so as to protect the nation’s food supply through food defense and food safety 
surveillance activities, and thereby enhance efforts to work toward ensuring the public’s health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173007
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007090-01
- **Recipient organization:** FLORIDA STATE DEPT OF AGRIC/CONSUM SRVCS
- **Principal Investigator:** Jason Crowe
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $203,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173007

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173007, Track 2 Micro - Human Food Testing (1U19FD007090-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173007. Licensed CC0.

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