# Western Center for Food Safety

> **NIH FDA U19** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2020 · $1,999,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
The primary goal of this project is to implement a cooperative agreement for the continued
support of the Western Center for Food Safety (WCFS), which functions as a collaborative
partnership between FDA and the University of California, Davis. The long-term goals of this
center are five-fold: 1) Continue to conduct multidisciplinary applied laboratory, field and
educational research regarding the safety of agriculture production to generate practical
solutions that can be implemented by the agricultural community and consequently, enhance
food safety and food defense for FDA-regulated products; 2) Continue to develop and maintain
communication with various stakeholders, domestic and international, involved in food
production and food safety in order to identify food safety knowledge gaps and opportunities to
leverage resources; 3) Continue to enhance technical assistance outreach and educational
efforts through various channels, including seminars, presentations, serving on technical
advisory boards and committees, and outreach through agriculture extension appointments; 4)
Continue to engage in multi-institutional collaborations to ensure that FDA has the most current
scientific thinking on best agricultural practices across varying agro-ecological landscapes; 5)
Continue to assist the FDA in implementing food safety standards under FSMA.
These long-term goals will be achieved through the execution of the objectives set forth by
WCFS key personnel during proposed research and outreach activities. WCFS activities will
achieve multiple food safety and food defense objectives through the fulfillment of three overall
aims: 1) Enhance and expand multidisciplinary research that generates real-world data that the
FDA may use to fill in knowledge gaps and develop science-based guidance that promote public
health and food safety; 2) Provide technical assistance to the farming and food processing
communities through outreach, training, and educational materials to help communities both
comply with rules set forth under FSMA and improve community understanding of their roles for
insuring food safety utilizing the best available data; and 3) Continuously build relationships with
domestic and international partners enabling WCFS to successfully leverage multiple resources
to maximize the achievement and impact of research, education, and outreach objectives.
Proposed projects in the first year involve the generation of data and outreach materials related
to implementation of cooperative water monitoring, fate of foodborne pathogens in postharvest
activities, evaluation of risks associated with equipment in leafy green and tree nut production,
and pathogen survival and potential regrowth associated with biological soil amendments.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9997901
- **Project number:** 5U19FD004995-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
- **Principal Investigator:** Edward Robert Atwill
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,999,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-09-15 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9997901

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9997901, Western Center for Food Safety (5U19FD004995-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9997901. Licensed CC0.

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