The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), and Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) is announcing the availability of a cooperative agreement to be awarded under a Limited Competition.
Donor Name: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/04/2022
Grant Size: $350,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The goal of this cooperative agreement program is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national animal food safety system and achieve integration of the system by strengthening interagency collaboration, improving states’ regulatory and surveillance protection programs, and promoting the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS). This will be accomplished through the provision of funding and will require extensive cooperation and coordination with FDA program offices. Effective leveraging of resources and harmonization of efforts will require collaboration with relevant initiatives, including those of federal partners, national initiatives and associations, and state partners.
The primary objectives of this cooperative agreement are:
- Support the efforts of federal and state government agencies to build a national integrated animal food safety system;
- 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;
- Identifying, developing, delivering, promoting, and/or assisting 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
- 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.
Funding Information
- It is anticipated that up to one (1) award will be made, not to exceed $350,000 in total costs (direct plus indirect), per award.
- The maximum project period is three (3) years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- This limited competition opportunity is only available to the following animal food safety training entities that collaborate with one or more institutes of higher education: National organizations/associations representing state animal food regulatory programs as a primary purpose and primarily consisting of membership from state animal feed regulatory program directors and staff, or government agencies including, but not limited to, AFRPS enrollees, and who collaborate with one or more institutions of higher education as defined in 21 USC §399(b).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
