# Chemistry Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track

> **NIH FDA U19** · OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $10,500

## Abstract

Increasing the Capability and Capacity of 
Microbiological and Chemical Testing to Support an 
Integrated Food Defense and Food Safety System 
Chemistry Discipline, Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track 
Project Summary / Abstract 
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Consumer Protection Laboratory (CPL) proposes to 
participate in risk assessment of human food products through surveillance testing and 
collaboration with state and federal regulators. The Food Safety division of ODA is the primary 
state regulatory sampling organization and throughout the past four to five years ODA-CPL and 
the Food Safety division has created and renewed a sampling agreement as part of their 
cooperative efforts in enrollment of the Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards 
(MFRPS). ODA-CPL thus requests for at least 75 human food samples from Food Safety to 
support the surveillance work relating to this analytical track. This will be supplemented by 
ODA-CPL’s acquisition of another 425 human food samples for surveillance testing. The 
laboratory is prepared to perform GC-MS, LC-MS and ICP-MS screens for toxins, poisons, toxic 
metals and any other type of contaminant that might be present in food samples. The current 
focus is screening for lead in syrups and screening for patulin and arsenic in apple ciders. 
Through ODA-CPL’s involvement in the Chemistry Discipline Capability and Capacity 
Development Analytical Track, the lab is poised to integrate a multiplex system into their 
current workflow to assist allergens testing through the xMAP Food Allergen Detection Assay. 
When ODA-CPL successfully develops, implements and authorizes the use of this method, ODA- 
CPL proposes to supplement surveillance testing by re-allocating resources towards the 
screening of spices for allergens.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173196
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007087-01
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Jason Siu Kong
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $10,500
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173196

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173196, Chemistry Human Food Product Testing Analytical Track (1U19FD007087-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173196. Licensed CC0.

---

*[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*