# Discipline C: Radiochemistry, Analytical Track 1: Food Defense

> **NIH FDA U19** · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $149,929

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract – Track1 
The overarching aim of this project is to support food defense efforts in the State of Colorado by 
establishing a radioanalytical measurements laboratory capable of monitoring human and 
animal food products for gamma-emitting radioactive contaminants. This laboratory will be 
established with the support from the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA), which will 
provide the animal food samples that will be analyzed in this laboratory. A minimum of twenty- 
five animal food samples per year provided by the CDA will be analyzed for gamma-emitting 
radioisotopes using high-purity germanium and sodium iodide detectors already available in the 
Health Physics program at Colorado State University. Suitable laboratory space will be 
dedicated to this effort and the required quality assurance and control system will be established 
to ensure accuracy of the results.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175934
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007107-01
- **Recipient organization:** COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Ralf Sudowe
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $149,929
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175934

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175934, Discipline C: Radiochemistry, Analytical Track 1: Food Defense (1U19FD007107-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175934. Licensed CC0.

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