# NJDA Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory and FDA CVM VetLIRN Program Co-operative Agreement to Safeguard Animal and Human Health

> **NIH FDA U18** · NEW JERSEY STATE DEPARTMENTR/AGRICULTURE · 2021 · $25,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory’s
(AHDL) objectives in participating in this project are to obtain the equipment, supplies, and
personnel as well as the training in standardized testing methodologies to increase the AHDL’s
testing capabilities in response to an event of a feed or drug adulteration. By participating in this
program, the AHDL will improve the capabilities to function as a Vet-LIRN laboratory and to
respond to potential emergency outbreaks or contaminated feed/drug incidents. The AHDL will
also improve its ability to generate data for antimicrobial resistance studies in veterinary
pathogens through increased submission of samples collected from dogs.
In participating in the Vet-LIRN programs, the AHDL will be participating in sample analyses,
methods development, animal food/drug defense assignments, bacterial isolates, antimicrobial
susceptibility studies, training, and proficiency testing when available. The laboratory will
provide surge capacity as needed by the Vet-LIRN/FDA in the event of a large-scale
microbiological or chemical terrorism or natural pathogenic organism outbreak event affecting
animal food or drug products. The AHDL will share results of method development, method
validation and matrix extension studies with VPO and network laboratories as determined by the
VPO. The AHDL will also provide bacterial isolates for antimicrobial susceptibility studies
including sharing the susceptibility data and relevant metadata.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10189619
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006245-05
- **Recipient organization:** NEW JERSEY STATE DEPARTMENTR/AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Amar Patil
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $25,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-08-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189619

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10189619, NJDA Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory and FDA CVM VetLIRN Program Co-operative Agreement to Safeguard Animal and Human Health (5U18FD006245-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10189619. Licensed CC0.

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