# Enhancement of California's Integrated Food Safety and Security System: Discipline B Track 1

> **NIH FDA U19** · CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH · 2020 · $398,058

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract: Discipline B Chemistry, Track 1 
FDA LFFM (U19), FOA PAR-20-105 
One primary focus of the Food and Drug Laboratory Branch (FDLB) Chemistry Section is 
the monitoring of food and drug products to ensure a safe supply for public consumption. 
The primary objective of the food defense project is to provide surge capacity by 
expanding the laboratory-testing capability and capacity for toxic chemicals and toxins in 
human food products by means of food defense surveillance testing, outbreak or 
incidence investigation testing, and participating in testing requested by FDA for possible 
chemical threats to food supply and in national and regional security exercises. We 
propose to maintain and improve national and regional chemical response capacity in the 
analyses of inorganic and organic contaminants on different food matrices that should 
cover a variety of food commodities such as fresh produce (vegetables and fruits), 
manufactured beverages (juice, bottled water, and alcoholic drinks, etc.), milk and related 
dairy products, baby foods, spices, and seafoods, etc. We will maintain a well-trained staff 
who are proficient in all the major analytical methods FERN has developed such as the 
GC-MS / LC-MS for poison / toxin screen (CHE.0006 and CHE.0007), the ICP-MS (EAM 
4.7, EAM 4.10, EAM 4.11) for metals and speciation analyses, and other technologies 
such as XRF and ELISA for faster screening to increase our surge capacity.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175991
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007104-01
- **Recipient organization:** CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** DADONG XU
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $398,058
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175991

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175991, Enhancement of California's Integrated Food Safety and Security System: Discipline B Track 1 (1U19FD007104-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175991. Licensed CC0.

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