{"id":1785,"date":"2023-08-21T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:56:09","slug":"cdfa-laboratory-hosts-delegates-from-usdas-cochran-fellowship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/cdfa-laboratory-hosts-delegates-from-usdas-cochran-fellowship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"CDFA laboratory hosts delegates from USDA\u2019s Cochran Fellowship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"332\" data-attachment-id=\"1786\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/cdfa-laboratory-hosts-delegates-from-usdas-cochran-fellowship-program\/08-21-23-cac-cochran-fellowship\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1430,463\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-300x97.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-1024x332.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-1024x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-1024x332.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship-768x249.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/08.21.23-CAC-Cochran-Fellowship.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Members of USDA\u2019s International Cochran Fellowship Program tour the CDFA Center for Analytical Chemistry. \u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Center for Analytical Chemistry (CAC) recently conducted discussion and lab tours with members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service\u2019s Cochran Fellow\u00adship Program (USDA CFP) to offer training to agricultural professionals in emerging markets from across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the tour, CDFA scientists provided details of the CAC Food Safety and Environmental Safety labs and their procedures and operations, including sample receiving, sample preparation, extraction, instrumentation, anal\u00adysis, and data processing and reporting. The visitors also discussed with CAC staff the laboratory management system, staff development and competency, as well as food safety inspection and regulatory programs in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USDA CFP provides short-term training opportunities to agricul\u00adtural professionals from middle-in\u00adcome countries, emerging mar\u00adkets and emerging democracies. The fellows work with U.S. uni\u00adversities, government agencies and private companies to receive hands-on training to enhance their technical knowledge and skills related to agriculture trade, agribusiness development, man\u00adagement, policy and marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDFA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/is\/cac\/\">Center for Analytical Chemistry<\/a> is a branch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/is\/\">Inspection Services Division<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Center for Analytical Chemistry (CAC) recently conducted discussion and lab tours with members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service\u2019s Cochran Fellow\u00adship Program (USDA CFP) to offer training to agricultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/cdfa-laboratory-hosts-delegates-from-usdas-cochran-fellowship-program\/\"><span class=\"text-nowrap\">Continue reading <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,14,12],"tags":[337,231,400],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdfa-center-for-analytical-chemistry","category-cdfa-environmental-safety-lab","category-cdfa-food-safety-lab","category-cdfa-inspection-services-division","tag-california-state-laboratory","tag-california-state-scientists","tag-usda-cochran-fellowship-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}