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B -- EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR DRUG RESIDUES IN ANIMAL DERIVED HUMAN FOOD SOL 223-97-7100 DUE 051597 POC Trudy Dartouzos, Contract Specialist, Paul Scarborough, Contracting Officer, 301/443-4420 The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has a requirement to evaluate newly developed analytical methods to determine if they can meet current FDA standards for methods that identify and quantify animal residues in meat, eggs, fish, and other animal derived food sources. RFP will be available upon written request on or before April 18, 1997. This contract will have tasks to provide data and observations to assist CVM in determining if the assigned method meets the standards for specificity, precision, systematic error, and collateral criteria. There will be three phases: instrumental performance evaluation, method familiarization and assay of predetermined set of samples along with a method trial of sulfadiazine in salmon tissue developed by the FDA National Center for Toxicological Research. Samples of analytical drugs, medicated or control feed, control tissue or milk, and tissue or milk containing incurred residues of drugs will be provided by CVM. A five-year period of performance is anticipated for this requirement which could result in a multiple award. (0091)

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