# Admin Core - Food Defense and Surveillance in Support of the FDA by the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa

> **NIH FDA U19** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2020 · $45,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract - Admin Core: 
The State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) at the University of Iowa currently provides the essential structure in a 
public health laboratory to support and execute a food safety, surveillance, investigative and regulatory program 
for the State of Iowa. SHL does so in partnership with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals and in 
partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the national scale. The intention of the SHL is to 
continue the partnership with IDIA and FDA and serve Iowa needs for food safety, surveillance, and regulatory 
requirements. SHL has in place all the programmatic and physical infrastructure to execute the requirements of 
the new Laboratory Flexible Funding Model Cooperative Agreement. The SHL governance structure falls under 
the Office of the Vice-President of Research at the University of Iowa. The laboratory is organized and operated 
under a Director and three Associate Directors – Associate Director, Environmental Health Division (EHD), 
Associate Director, Diagnostic and Clinical Division (DCD), Associate Director, Administrative and Finance 
Division (AFD). The SHL employs approximately 190 staff members among the three laboratory locations. 
Twenty-one of those staff will be directly and indirectly involved with food safety and surveillance activities at two 
lab locations. Staff in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Environmental Microbiology sections fulfill 
analytical responsibilities for all food-related testing at SHL for FDA FERN and FDA ISO 17025:2017 and sample 
collection for FERN surveillance programs. The SHL maintains a comprehensive quality management system. 
The Quality Management Plan (QMP) defines and sets the standard for the policies, procedures, and 
documentation from collection of samples, through reporting final results to the client/submitter, to final 
disposition of the sample/specimen. The SHL QMP has been prepared in accord with Environmental Protection 
Agency and The NELAC Institute standards consistent with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements. SHL has 
adopted the iPassport Document Control & Compliance Management system for document control process in 
which all SHL’s standard operating procedures (SOPS), QASPS, documents and policies reside. Food sample 
collection procedures, including actions describing specimen/sample collection, transport, preservation, storage 
and security are clearly defined in SHL SOP CV ENV 1311 FERN Food Surveillance (May 2018, updated May 
2020) and SHL Policy 1531 Controlled Substances Handling, Storage, Use and Disposal (October 2018). These 
documents also refer to and require the use of legal chain of custody procedures and forms which are defined 
in SHL Policy 931 SHL Security and Legal Chain of Custody Policy (September 2016, updated May 2019. 
Sample analysis outcomes data reporting will be completed in conjunction with the IDIA for food defense samples 
collected by IDIA and 2) via the...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10176081
- **Project number:** 1U19FD007100-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL David SCHUELLER
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $45,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10176081

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10176081, Admin Core - Food Defense and Surveillance in Support of the FDA by the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa (1U19FD007100-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10176081. Licensed CC0.

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