# Arizona Department of Health Services  Laboratory - Chemistry Tract 1: Food Defense

> **NIH FDA U19** · ARIZONA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HLTH SRVCS · 2020 · $218,542

## Abstract

Chemistry Track 1 – Food Defense 
Narrative 
The Arizona Department of Health Services Laboratory (ASPHL) Chemistry program will 
continue to engage in food defense chemistry analysis by maintaining competency in FDA Food 
Emergency Response Network (FERN) analytical methods on the instrument platforms LC/MS, 
GC/MS, and ICP-MS under the accreditation scope of ISO 17025. ASPHL Chemistry has 
served as a FDA FERN cCAP grantee Laboratory for 15 years and specializes in both 
developing new technology that furthers the capacity and analytical reach of the FERN 
community and in maintaining a state of readiness to assist Federal and State partners in the 
analysis of potential food adulterations of chemical poisons and toxins.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175844
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007108-01
- **Recipient organization:** ARIZONA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HLTH SRVCS
- **Principal Investigator:** Jason Foster Mihalic
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $218,542
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175844

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175844, Arizona Department of Health Services  Laboratory - Chemistry Tract 1: Food Defense (1U19FD007108-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175844. Licensed CC0.

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