# Chemistry Capability Capacity Development

> **NIH FDA U19** · VA  DIVISION/CONSOLIDATED LAB SRVS · 2020 · $4,500

## Abstract

PAR-20-105 Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) (U19) 
Chemistry 
 Analytical Track 4: Capability/Capacity Development 
 Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services 
 Project Summary 
 Principal Investigator: 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 participate in the Chemistry Capability/Capacity Development Analytical Track 
in order to increase the ability of DCLS to respond to state and federal requests for human food testing for 
fifteen common allergens in food. A single laboratory validation will be performed following DCLS policies and 
FDA guidelines in order to test method robustness and validity. Laboratory competence will be assessed by 
participation in an outside proficiency test deemed suitable or internal blind proficiency test.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174332
- **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:** $4,500
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174332

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174332, Chemistry Capability Capacity Development (1U19FD007077-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174332. Licensed CC0.

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