# Leveraging Unique Capabilities and Capacities for Chemical Analyses of Diverse Food and Feed Matrices in Support of an Integrated Food Safety System

> **NIH FDA U19** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2020 · $242,374

## Abstract

Admin Core 
Project Summary 
The California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS) is California’s state veterinary 
diagnostic laboratory, responsible for assuring the health of the state’s agricultural animals and safety of 
foods of animal origin. The CAHFS Toxicology Section occupies a unique position as a highly experienced 
and well-equipped veterinary toxicology laboratory and is a natural fit as a partner to the FDA in 
furthering their mission of protecting human food and animal feed in the U.S. from unsafe chemical 
contamination. 
Careful and thoughtful management of the grant projects and their budgets is the only means by which 
the successful performance of the proposed food defense, surveillance sample analyses, and method 
development and validation projects will be achieved. 
CAHFS proposes to ensure project success by assisting and enabling personnel of the CAHFS Toxicology 
Section to perform the work required by providing the resources of time, equipment and managerial 
support. 
Management and administration of the grant will occur through the cooperation of the CAHFS 
Toxicology Section with CAHFS administrative personnel who, under the guidance of the University of 
California, Davis, Office of Research, Sponsored Programs office, will provide budget oversight according 
to FDA and University of California guidelines. 
The grant PD/PI, the CAHFS Toxicology Section Chief Chemist/Laboratory Manager, and CAHFS 
Toxicology Section Senior Chemists will coordinate and manage the work assignments, ensure 
adherence to project time lines and due dates, report results, and produce reports required by the 
grant.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173535
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007066-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT HOWARD POPPENGA
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $242,374
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173535

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173535, Leveraging Unique Capabilities and Capacities for Chemical Analyses of Diverse Food and Feed Matrices in Support of an Integrated Food Safety System (1U19FD007066-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173535. Licensed CC0.

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