Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed
Status: Open
Posted date: November 30, 2023
Opportunity ID: 351257
Opportunity number: FOR-FD-24-015
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Food and Drug Administration
Agency code: HHS-FDA
Award floor: $360,000
Award ceiling: $1,440,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Cooperative Agreement
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Agriculture
- Consumer Protection
- Food and Nutrition
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Others
- Special district governments
- State governments
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:hhs_fda
- category_of_funding_activity:agriculture
- category_of_funding_activity:consumer_protection
- category_of_funding_activity:food_and_nutrition
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:city_or_township_governments
- eligible_applicants:county_governments
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:special_district_governments
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:open
The purpose of this FOA is to develop and maintain Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to facilitate long-term improvements and innovation to the national integrated food safety system by unifying and coordinating federal/state/local human and animal food (HAF) emergency response efforts including:1) Strengthening the link among epidemiology, lab and environmental health/regulatory components;2) Improving States' regulatory and surveillance HAF protection programs to include using Incident Command System (ICS)/National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles and a Unified Command structure to conduct integrated responses to all-hazards HAF emergencies, rapidly identifying and removing tainted food from commerce, and conducting root cause investigations to inform future prevention efforts; and3) Addressing supporting components, such as training, data sharing, data analysis, communications, continuous process improvement, and development of best practices and other resources to support national response capacity/capability development.