# Microbiology Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track

> **NIH FDA U19** · OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $63,000

## Abstract

Increasing the Capability and Capacity of 
Microbiological and Chemical Testing to Support an 
Integrated Food Defense and Food Safety System 
Microbiology Discipline, Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track 
Project Summary / Abstract 
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Consumer Protection Laboratory (CPL) propose to 
strengthen federal efforts to protect the national food supply and enhance the state's regulatory 
effectiveness in food safety as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act and the Food 
Emergency Response Network. The agency shall participate in state-initiated product testing of 
human foods products with the expectation of testing at minimum 500 samples for 
microbiological adulterants during each year of the five-year project period. ODA-CPL seeks to 
address three issues during the 5-yr grant period. First, ODA-CPL shall purchase new 
instrumentation that will help us more efficiently and accurately detect and confirm foodborne 
pathogens. Second, we shall look to add on personnel to help us effectively conduct the human 
food surveillance project. By adding staff at the technician level, we can allow our more 
experienced scientists to conduct the testing and devote time to method development 
opportunities. Lastly, with support from the grant we will look to continually add more methods 
to our ISO 17025 scope of accreditation. We look forward to moving towards adding more of the 
emerging illness causing agents to our capability in the areas of toxicology, parasitology and 
eventually virology. By enhancing our scope, we feel we will be better able to serve our clients 
and federal partners.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173191
- **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:** $63,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173191

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173191, Microbiology Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track (1U19FD007087-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173191. Licensed CC0.

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