Cooperative Agreement UE2EH000724

Summary: NMDOH Retail Meat Surveillance Program The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) received a $180,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine under the Food and Drug Administration Research program (CFDA 93.103), effective September 20, 2025, through August 31, 2030. Under this award, NMDOH's Scientific Laboratory Division operates a Retail Meat Surveillance Program that monitors antimicrobial resistance among enteric bacteria...

The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service awarded a $590,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland, College Park from October 2021 through September 2022 under the Food Safety Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 10.479). Under the award, the University will assist FSIS in developing two separate risk assessment models for Salmonella in chicken and turkey production. The models will estimate reductions in foodborne illness attributed to controlling Salmonella...

This $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Industrial Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds the development of a rapid, simple, and low-cost Salmonella detection and quantification test. Secure Food Solutions, Incorporated will optimize a multi-layer 96-well microplate method to demonstrate 90% sensitivity and specificity for Salmonella in raw poultry and processing environment samples within 15 hours without pre-enrichment. They...

Aems Corp was awarded a $296,955 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund the development of organic, food-grade sanitizing coatings for food processing equipment. Aems Corp will assess FDA-approved ingredients capable of killing harmful bacteria and incorporate them into a material that can be easily applied to surfaces....

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Central Arkansas Mobile Processing, LLC (CAMP) a $188,989 Project Grant under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program. The grant will allow CAMP to purchase modernized processing and new manufacturing equipment for its operations, including cutting equipment, mixers, grinders, sausage stuffers, pipes, motors, pumps, and valves. This equipment will improve CAMP's meat slaughter and...

Chapman University is conducting a single-laboratory validation study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), CFDA 10.310, to develop optimized methods for detecting Salmonella enterica in meat analog products. The two-year project, awarded $295,703 on August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2027, addresses gaps in current regulatory detection procedures that were...

Kansas State University received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) program on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 14, 2028. The research project will investigate Salmonella contamination in ground turkey and poultry products through a three-year study conducted at the university's Manhattan, Kansas facility. The primary deliverable is detailed, science-based research data...

This $299,999 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research and extension activities at Oregon State University to help produce industry better implement cleaning and sanitizing programs to meet Produce Safety Rule requirements. Specifically, the awardee will (1) engage produce industry to characterize existing food contact surfaces and...

The University of Nebraska received a $399,999 Project Grant award dated September 15, 2025, through the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328), administered by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA). The project, scheduled for completion by September 29, 2028, addresses critical food safety challenges faced by small and very small food manufacturing businesses that lack adequate technical resources to manage risks from...

SR1 received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328) to develop and provide customized food safety education and outreach from farm to table. The two-year award will fund SR1's Community Oriented Opportunities for Learning Food Safety from Farm to Table project, which aims to build upon existing food safety education and address the specialized needs of socially...