WASHINGTON D.C.: FDA awards grants to further food safety - (Food and Drug Administration)
November 19, 2007 – 7:20 pmhttp://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01747.html
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) today announced the award of three lab grants, designed to boost the food screening capabilities and spot radioactive material in food, resulting from deliberate or accidental contamination.
These labs are part of the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN).
The three-year grants provide $250,000 a year for supplies, personnel, minor facility upgrades and training.
Recipients of the grants are the Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory, the New York Health Research/New York Department of Health, and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
FDA’s ORA will expand its testing program to address the threat to food safety through radiological terrorism events. ORA has developed radiological screening and analysis methodologies used to evaluate foods and food products.
The grants are targeted toward enhanced detection of radiological contamination and thus enhance the nation’s overall capability to rapidly detect and respond to deliberate attacks on the […]
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