# Chemistry Food Defense

> **NIH FDA U19** · VA  DIVISION/CONSOLIDATED LAB SRVS · 2020 · $305,000

## Abstract

PAR-20-105 Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) (U19) Chemistry Food Defense Track 
 Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services 
 Project Summary 
 Principal Investigators: Christopher Waggener, Ph.D. 
 Project Director: Shane Wyatt 
Project Summary 
 The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) is the public health laboratory for the 
Commonwealth of Virginia and offers a wide variety of laboratory testing services for state and federal 
agencies, local governments and other states in support of public health, environmental protection, and 
emergency response. DCLS provides surveillance and emergency response testing of food samples for the 
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) Food Safety Program by offering nearly 
comprehensive testing of food samples by microbiology, chemistry, and radiochemical methods. DCLS is a 
long-term participating partner in the FDA Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) and is capable of providing 
screening for toxic compounds in foods by GC-MS, LC-MS, LC-HRMS, and ICP-MS. In addition, DCLS can 
perform targeted analysis to confirm the identity of adulterated compounds and quantify their presence as 
adulterants. DCLS proposes to continue to provide food defense activities by maintaining readiness for 
emergency response, participation in ongoing surveillance and national security event assignments, 
participation in proficiency testing, and single or multi-laboratory validations to expand FERN method 
capabilities. Participation by DCLS in this analytical track will ensure its capability to act as the primary 
response laboratory for food adulteration in the Commonwealth of Virginia and support the FERN program in 
large scale events.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174329
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007077-01
- **Recipient organization:** VA  DIVISION/CONSOLIDATED LAB SRVS
- **Principal Investigator:** SHANE A WYATT
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $305,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174329

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174329, Chemistry Food Defense (1U19FD007077-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174329. Licensed CC0.

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