# California Drug Residue Prevention Program

> **NIH FDA U18** · CALIFORNIA STATE DEPT/FOOD/AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $175,000

## Abstract

California Drug Residue Prevention Program
Project Abstract/Summary
The mission of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Antimicrobial Use
and Stewardship (AUS) Program is to provide leadership to California’s livestock industry
toward the mutual effort to mitigate practices contributing to the expansion of antimicrobial
resistance, to reduce potentially harmful impacts from the use of antibiotics, to promote and
protect animal health by preserving existing veterinary antimicrobial drugs for veterinary use,
and to ensure a clean and wholesome food supply through sound science, education,
stewardship, and proficient management. This program is a collaborative effort between
Inspection Services Division’s Feed, Fertilizer, and Livestock Drugs Regulatory Services Branch
and Animal Health and Food Safety Services Division. The mission of CDFA’s Livestock Drug
Program (LDP) is to assure that livestock drugs are available to producers for their use in
protecting the health of livestock and such use will in turn benefit the public by providing a safe
and abundant supply of food and fiber.
The primary goals of the proposed project are to develop industry-wide education and outreach,
conduct assessments with recent violators, and perform on-site best practices visits for
historical violators. This project will allow CDFA to further both the LDP and AUS programs’
outreach and best practices for producers, which ties directly in with CDFA’s efforts to
implement the new Livestock: Use of Antimicrobial Drugs law in California. This project would
allow additional education for violators after an investigation, furthering efforts to prevent misuse
of antibiotics and other livestock drugs and potentially reducing future drug residues.
Grant funding will enable AUS and LDP to further enhance both programs through development
of additional targeted producer outreach, and producer assessments and visits outside of
enforcement. These funds will allow the programs to develop on farm assessment tools to
generate risk levels of producers and help for future reduction of drug residue when this grant
period has concluded. The programs will utilize information from on farm assessments and visits
to enhance outreach materials and develop livestock drug training programs. Overall, the
development of these materials and programs will increase drug residue prevention awareness.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9955037
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006501-03
- **Recipient organization:** CALIFORNIA STATE DEPT/FOOD/AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Rachelle Kennedy
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $175,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9955037

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9955037, California Drug Residue Prevention Program (5U18FD006501-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9955037. Licensed CC0.

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