Grants / Department of Health and Human Services / Food and Drug Administration

Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Forecast Forecast, no dates yet Opportunity FOR-FD-24-015

• Award ceiling$1.4 million
• Award floor$360,000
• Expected awards4
• Total fundingnot stated
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to state and local governments.

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Special district governments
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Governments State Governments

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Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

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; and 3) 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.

Category: Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Food and Nutrition.

How to apply

1. Read the full notice and attachments on Grants.gov. The notice is the official source for deadlines and requirements.
2. Make sure your organization has an active SAM.gov registration and Unique Entity ID; registration can take several weeks.
3. Register on Grants.gov and submit through Workspace before the deadline and time given in the notice. Our application guide walks through each step.

Questions go to Terrin Brown, Grantor, terrin.brown@fda.hhs.gov, 2404027610.

Open the official notice