Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaboration
Forecasted Federal grant Posted
- Opportunity number
- FOR-FD-26-003
- Agency
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Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications expected due
- Not on record
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Categories
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- Agriculture
- Consumer Protection
- Food and Nutrition
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Danielle Head danielle.head@fda.hhs.gov (301) 796-2984
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Food and Drug Administration seeks applicants for a cooperative agreement supporting retail food safety regulatory collaboration, with a letter of intent or application due July 14, 2026. Competition is limited to non-profit national organizations affiliated with one or more institutions of higher learning whose membership includes state, local, tribal, and territorial regulatory personnel whose primary duties encompass retail food safety, as explicitly permitted by the grant-making provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (21 USC 399).
Recipients will assist state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies in conducting research, implementing intervention strategies, and performing other activities to reduce foodborne illness risk factors, reduce the burden of foodborne illness, and advance a nationally integrated food safety system. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement under CFDA 93.103 (Food and Drug Administration Research), a program that has sustained activity across 45 years of continuous operation and has obligated combined federal dollars totaling $4.17 billion across 3,008 grants, with non-federal cost-share contributing an additional $220 million. The program portfolio consists predominantly of cooperative agreements (58% of awards) and project grants (40%), with a small number of block grants (2%). Recent cooperative agreement awards in the program have ranged from $250 thousand to $2.4 million.
Forecast synopsis
The program furthers the FDA's support of state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) retail food safety programs in their efforts to reduce the occurrence of food-borne illness risk factors for the benefit of the public. Recipients of this funding will assist SLTT agencies in conducting research, implementing intervention strategies, and performing other activities to reduce the occurrence of food-borne illness risk factors, reduce the burden of foodborne illness, and advance a nationally integrated food safety system.
Eligibility
Competition will be limited to non-profit national organizations affiliated with one or more institutions of higher learning whose membership includes state, local, tribal and territorial regulatory personnel whose primary duties include retail food safety, as explicitly permitted by the grant-making provisions of FSMA (21 USC 399).
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