Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards Implementation Development and Maintenance, with Mutual Reliance Initiatives
Forecasted Federal grant Posted
- Opportunity number
- FOR-FD-25-003
- Agency
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Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications expected due
- Not on record
- Award size
- $10,600,000
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 advance state animal food regulatory program implementation of the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) and develop mutual reliance initiatives between state and federal regulators; this is a forecast with specific deadlines and outputs currently under development.
Eligible applicants are limited to national organizations and associations with responsibility and authority for animal food regulation in their respective jurisdictions. Applicants must have or be willing to enter into a 20.88 information disclosure agreement with the FDA and must have or procure at least a commissioning certificate to facilitate information sharing between states and FDA.
The cooperative agreement funds state animal food regulatory programs to achieve and maintain full AFRPS implementation and to develop and standardize processes, procedures, systems, and methods that integrate federal and state animal food regulatory work. Intended outcomes include operational use of standardized systems that compel federal reliance on state regulatory work and reciprocal state reliance on federal work.
The program operates under CFDA 93.103, Food and Drug Administration Research. Recent cooperative agreements under this program have ranged from $250 thousand to $2.4 million annually for state laboratory initiatives. The AFRPS initiative represents a nationally integrated food safety system priority, and awardees must maintain the animal food safety contract in satisfactory condition throughout the period of performance.
Forecast synopsis
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to advance efforts for a nationally integrated animal food safety system providing State animal food regulatory programs the ability to achieve and maintain full implementation of the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS), and to fund optional projects for State animal food regulatory programs to develop and standardize processes, procedures, systems, and other methods to integrate federal and state animal food regulatory work resulting in mutual reliance.
Specific outcomes may include, but are not limited to:
• State animal food regulatory programs will achieve and maintain implementation of the AFRPS, which is recognized as a critical element to creating a national, fully integrated food safety system.
• Operational use of standardized animal food regulatory systems developed by state programs to compel federal reliance on state regulatory work and resources and reciprocal state reliance on federal work and resources, resulting in mutual reliance.
Outputs, Objectives, and Outcomes for this NOFO are currently under development and subject to change before the submission of the NOFO for clearance.
Eligibility
Competition is limited to these national organizations/associations for the following reasons:Limited competition ensures the applicant has responsibility and authority for animal food regulation in their respective jurisdictions. The animal food safety contract must be maintained in satisfactory condition. Awardees must have or be willing to enter into a 20.88 information disclosure agreement with the FDA and will be required to have at least a commissioning certificate (or be willing to procure one) to facilitate information sharing between other States and FDA.
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