# Special Project Sample Collection

> **NIH FDA U19** · RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH · 2020 · $24,999

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract for State of Rhode Island PAR-20-105 Laboratory Flexible 
Funding Model (LFFM) (U19) Application. Discipline D: Special Projects, Track 1: 
Sample Collection 
Project Summary/Abstract 
The Rhode Island State Health Laboratories (RISHL) is the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 
accredited food regulatory laboratory for the state FDA Manufactured Food Regulatory 
Program (MFRPS) and as such, provides laboratory support to the state and federal 
integrated food safety system under the Food Safety Modernization Act. Under the 
proposed project, the RISHL seeks to continue and enhance surveillance sampling efforts 
collected and tested for the MFRPS program by leveraging its longstanding partnership 
with the state’s food regulatory agency, the RIDOH Center for Food Protection (CFP). 
The RISHL recognizes the importance of conducting carefully planned and executed 
surveillance sampling as a means to find and remove adulterated food from the 
marketplace. The RISHL and CFP have partnered on multiple surveillance sampling 
efforts over the past six years and seek to continue these efforts going forward. This 
proposed project will allow for the continued training of staff, purchase of sampling 
supplies and payment for samples purchased at the manufacturer or retail location. These 
efforts will significantly improve the joint RISHL and CFP surveillance sampling efforts 
and thus the laboratory’s ability to support to the state and federal integrated food safety 
system under the Food Safety Modernization Act.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175535
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007115-01
- **Recipient organization:** RHODE ISLAND STATE DEPT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Henry Leibovitz
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $24,999
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175535

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175535, Special Project Sample Collection (1U19FD007115-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175535. Licensed CC0.

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