Laboratory Testing

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Accreditations

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    CLIA Certificate of Compliance for High Complexity Clinical Laboratory
  • EPA Environmental Protection Agency
    Ambient Air and Drinking Water Testing
  • Food Science Laboratories are accredited by ANAB to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for Testing Laboratories
  • Forensic Science Laboratories are accredited by ANAB to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for Testing Laboratories
    Federal Bureau of Investigations DNA Analysis & CODIS
  • Rhode Island Department of Health - In-State Analytical Laboratory Certificate
  • Rhode Island Department of Health - In-State Clinical Laboratory License

About

Information for

Programs

Publications

Regulations

Partners

Accreditations

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    CLIA Certificate of Compliance for High Complexity Clinical Laboratory
  • EPA Environmental Protection Agency
    Ambient Air and Drinking Water Testing
  • Food Science Laboratories are accredited by ANAB to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for Testing Laboratories
  • Forensic Science Laboratories are accredited by ANAB to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for Testing Laboratories
    Federal Bureau of Investigations DNA Analysis & CODIS
  • Rhode Island Department of Health - In-State Analytical Laboratory Certificate
  • Rhode Island Department of Health - In-State Clinical Laboratory License

Contact

Glen Gallagher, PhD
Associate Director

Food Testing

Mission

To assure the safety of food supply by testing food products for microbiological and chemical contaminants.

What we do

  • Test food products and ingredients implicated in investigations of foodborne illness
  • Identify and quantify microbiological and chemical food contaminants following strict international quality standards.
  • Test food collected during routine state surveillance of manufactured food products.
  • Report food test results to the electronic repository (eLexnet) maintained by the FDA.
  • Participate in the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN), a network of qualified laboratories that respond to food contamination threats to the national food supplies.

Accomplishments

  • Food testing and successful collaboration with the RIDOH Centers for Food Protection and Acute Infectious Disease Epidemiology protects Rhode Island from food borne illness by collaborating successfully.