Animal Food Regulatory Program Alliance
Forecasted Federal grant Posted
- Opportunity number
- FOR-FD-25-002
- Agency
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Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications expected due
- Not on record
- Award size
- $600,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Categories
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- Consumer Protection
- Agriculture
- Food and Nutrition
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Terrin Brown terrin.brown@fda.hhs.gov (240) 402-7610
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Food and Drug Administration is soliciting applications for a cooperative agreement to strengthen the national animal food safety system through interagency collaboration and state regulatory program improvement, with no hard deadline date specified in this forecast posting.
Eligible applicants are national associations or organizations whose primary purpose is to represent state animal food regulatory programs. The association must be comprised of regular members who are officials of state regulatory agencies administering animal food inspection programs, possess knowledge of state animal food protection program infrastructure and capacity, and demonstrate successful experience carrying out national efforts to build an integrated food safety system involving federal, state, and local agencies.
The program supports four core objectives: building a national integrated animal food safety system; establishing mechanisms for sharing best practices, guidance documents, sampling plans, and memorandums of understanding to facilitate mutual reliance between federal and state animal food regulatory programs; identifying, developing, and promoting animal food safety training programs aligned with the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) and Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) provisions; and advancing AFRPS modernization through continuous improvement.
The award instrument is a cooperative agreement under CFDA 93.103 (Food and Drug Administration Research). Award amount, period of performance, and expected number of awards are not specified in this forecast. Recent related cooperative agreements in the FDA Research program have ranged from $250 thousand to $2.4 million annually for state laboratory and regulatory collaboration initiatives.
Forecast synopsis
The goal of FDA/ORA's Cooperative Agreement Program is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national food safety system by strengthening interagency collaboration, improving States' regulatory and surveillance protection programs for manufactured foods, conducting research, and promotion of the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS).
Objectives include:
1. Support the efforts of federal and state government agencies to build a national integrated animal food safety system;
2. Establish systems for sharing, promotion, and collaboration of best practices, guidance documents, sampling plans, procedures, memorandums of understanding, and other tools to facilitate and encourage mutual reliance between federal and state animal food regulatory programs and public health agencies;
3. Identify, develop, deliver promote, and/or assist with attendance of animal food safety training programs to support implementation of the AFRPS, as well as training and stakeholder support for provisions of FSMA; and
4. Support the advancement of the AFRPS and future revisions of the AFRPS as part of a system of continuous improvement to ensure the standards are modernized and support the needs of animal food regulatory programs.
Eligibility
The national associations /organizations eligible to apply for funding under this cooperative agreement must be a national organization that represents State animal food regulatory programs as a primary purpose. National Associations/Organizations have the membership, resources, structure, and expertise necessary to build national consensus amongst state agencies on key animal food safety issues. They are the primary means for communication and collaboration on issues of national significance for state agencies. The outcomes are position statements, resolutions, and legislation that are uniformly supported by state agencies. National Associations/Organizations are also viewed as primary sources for educational opportunities and current information, such as proposed legislation and emerging food safety issues.The association's principle purpose must be to act as a leader and a resource to State animal food regulatory agencies in developing strategies to resolve and promote public health and consumer protection related to the regulation of manufactured foods. Additionally, the association must have knowledge on the infrastructure, capacity, strengths and needs of State animal food protection programs. The association must have successful experience in carrying out national efforts to build an integrated food safety system, which includes Federal, State, and local agencies. The association must be comprised of regular members that are officials of State regulatory agencies that administer animal foods inspection programs in conjunction and in collaboration with FDA.
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