# Special Projects: Analytical Track 2: NFSDX and ORAPP

> **NIH FDA U19** · MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH · 2020 · $20,000

## Abstract

SUMMARY: SPECIAL PROJECT TRACK 2 (NFSDX INTEGRATION AND ORAPP ADOPTION) 
Realizing the revolutionary promise of large-scale systematic food surveillance depends on increasingly 
automated and integrated electronic data management systems to be developed and implemented. The 
core tenet of this large and multifaceted proposal is to contribute a comprehensive and integrated 
food protection laboratory hub to the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) that is capable of 
analyzing many different foods across a diversity of threat priorities, and communicate its results 
rapidly and efficiently. Implementing automated sample entry, real-time data deposition, and 
seamless electronic results reporting is central to achieving our goal of ensuring a safe food supply. 
Currently the MDH Laboratories Administration reports FERN testing results manually through eLEXNET. 
The information technology modernization that is currently underway at the MDH Laboratories 
Administration is an ideal opportunity to integrate systems for seamless reporting of results obtained 
under this cooperative agreement. We therefore seek to partake in Special Project Track 2 to integrate 
our data reposting systems to the Food and Drug Administration. Specifically, our activities in the first 
year of this cooperative agreement will be focused to achieve the prescribed Specific Aims for this track.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174022
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007084-01
- **Recipient organization:** MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** SINISA URBAN
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $20,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174022

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174022, Special Projects: Analytical Track 2: NFSDX and ORAPP (1U19FD007084-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174022. Licensed CC0.

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