About the Authors

Marc W. Allard

marc.allard@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Luo

Affiliation Office of Food Defense, Communications, and Emergency Response, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Errol Strain

Affiliation Office of Food Defense, Communications, and Emergency Response, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

James Pettengill

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ruth Timme

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Charles Wang

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Cong Li

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Christine E. Keys

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jie Zheng

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Robert Stones

Affiliation Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom

Mark R. Wilson

Affiliation Forensic Science Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven M. Musser

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Eric W. Brown

Affiliation Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MWA SMM CK JZ EWB. Performed the experiments: CW CL. Analyzed the data: ES JP RT YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS. Wrote the paper: MWA ES JP RT MRW EWB.