# Animal Feed and Pet Food Safety Cooperative Agreement with FDA/VET-LIRN

> **NIH FDA U18** · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $27,400

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The New York State/Cornell Animal Health Diagnostic Center is a full-service multidisciplinary veterinary
diagnostic laboratory and the only one of its kind in the northeastern United States. The AHDC received over
200,000 client accessions in 2016. The Analytical Toxicology section has GC/MS, HPLC, LC/MS-MS, atomic
absorption, and ICP-AES capabilities, making it a full-service analytical toxicology laboratory. Additionally, the
AHDC has a feed microscopist and x-ray fluorescence screening capabilities, which are unique to analytical
toxicology laboratories. The Analytical Toxicology laboratory of the AHDC performed approximately 10,000
analyses in the year 2016 on tissue, environmental, food, and feed samples. The AHDC has partnered with the
FDA and played an active role in pet food and animal feed contamination investigations many times over the
past dozen years. We hope to continue our participation with the FDA VetLIRN program and other network
laboratories to:
 1) Continue participation in VPO designated sample analyses and surveillance activities to promote
 animal health and welfare and add to the VetLIRN Network's surge capacity to assist in emergency and
 large-scale outbreak testing.
 2) Provide analytical data to support regulatory actions by developing and using standardized methods,
 equipment platforms, and reporting methods, continued participation in proficiency testing provided by
 the VPO, continue investigating consumer reported cases as requested by the VPO, and continuing to
 improve and implement standardized quality management systems as designated by the VPO.
 3) Continue to participate in small-scale method development projects, such as feed aflatoxin using
 CHARM, and participate in additional method development, such development of a method to detect
 cholecalciferol and related compounds in foods, feeds, and animal tissues.
The Analytical Toxicology section of the AHDC intends to continue cooperative activities with the FDA
VetLIRN, the VetLIRN network, and federal, state, local and tribal organizations to promote animal health and
feed and food safety and security.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10189612
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006168-05
- **Recipient organization:** CORNELL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Karyn Bischoff
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $27,400
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-08-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189612

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10189612, Animal Feed and Pet Food Safety Cooperative Agreement with FDA/VET-LIRN (5U18FD006168-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10189612. Licensed CC0.

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