Animal Food Regulatory Program Alliance
Status: Open
Posted date: August 14, 2024
Opportunity ID: 356041
Opportunity number: FOR-FD-25-002
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Food and Drug Administration
Agency code: HHS-FDA
Award floor: $600,000
Award ceiling: $600,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
- Agriculture
- Consumer Protection
- Food and Nutrition
Eligible Applicants
- Others
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:others
- funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:open
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; and4. 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.