# Microbiology - Food Defense Analytical Track

> **NIH FDA U19** · OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $368,350

## Abstract

Increasing the Capability and Capacity of 
Microbiological and Chemical Testing to Support an 
Integrated Food Defense and Food Safety System 
Microbiology Discipline, Food Defense Analytical Track 
Project Summary / Abstract 
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Consumer Protection Laboratory (CPL) proposes to 
strengthen federal efforts to protect the national food supply and enhance the state's capability 
and capacity in food defense in support of the Food Emergency Response Network. ODA-CPL 
seeks to address three different issues during the five-year project period. First, ODA-CPL will 
perform a matrix extension project on FERN method Yersinia pestis Screening Method (FERN- 
MIC-.0004.03). The project will validate FDA matrices against this newly revised method 
which recently had the PCR platform changed to a new manufacturer. In future project years 
ODA-CPL will continue working on validation projects on FERN methods and as guided by the 
FDA FERN project office. Second, ODA-CPL shall secure service contracts with vendors to 
minimize instrument downtime to ensure we are operationally ready in the event of a food 
emergency. Third, the laboratory will look to purchase new equipment to aid with media 
preparation. The intent is adding automated equipment that will give the laboratory flexibility 
to focus our attention on other laboratory activities, such as cross training, testing of samples. 
The agency proposes to participate in all US FDA initiated food defense activities related to 
animal or human food, including proficiency tests, surveillance activities, triage exercises, 
national security event exercises and any other testing as requested by the FDA where suspected 
or credible threats to the food supply are present. The agency's laboratories will maintain 
operational readiness in supplies, instrumentation and personnel should the agency laboratories 
need be deployed for a rapid response with minimum expectations of handling 50 
microbiological samples.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173190
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007087-01
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** YAMIR ROSA
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $368,350
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173190

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173190, Microbiology - Food Defense Analytical Track (1U19FD007087-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173190. Licensed CC0.

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