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FSIS-02152022: Salmonella Risk Assessment - FSIS

Closed Closed May 16, 2022 Opportunity FSIS-02152022 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$295,000
• Award floor$100,000
• Total funding$295,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Academic institutions, relevant non-government organizations, independent consultants specialized in microbial risk assessments for food safety, and/or multi-disciplinary groups that bridge the areas of expertise and responsibilities are sought as a collaborator on this work. Awardee must be a U.S. organization.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Food Safety Cooperative Agreements awards averaged $236,832; this notice allows up to $295,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (76% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for ensuring the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products. The Office of Public Health Science (OPHS)—one of many program areas supporting FSIS’ mission—brings public health leadership to FSIS to assure the establishment and support of scientifically sound food safety programs. The OPHS Risk Assessment and Analytics Staff (RAAS) conducts scientific risk assessments and develops new analytic methods for assessing risks of biological and chemical hazards in meat, poultry and egg products that inform risk management decisions and risk communication activities. RAAS’ scientific and technical analyses guide, support and enhance FSIS public health goals as they relate to regulatory initiatives, internal policymaking, data collection, research priorities, and the FSIS food safety goals. FSIS recently announced it will develop a stronger and more comprehensive food safety framework for the control of Salmonella in poultry. Several initiatives are underway to incorporate the latest science, data and laboratory technology into FSIS’s decision-making to identify ways to control Salmonella in poultry and reduce foodborne illness. FSIS is developing two separate risk assessment models, in chicken and in turkey. These production-to-consumption risk models will estimate reductions in foodborne illness attributed to chicken and to turkey resulting from control of Salmonella. Specifically, the models will predict the impact of: • controlling Salmonella prevalence, levels (enumeration), and subtypes of public health concern pre-harvest and post-harvest, • implementing preharvest controls, post-harvest controls, and combined pre- and post-harvest controls, and • establishing criteria limiting Salmonella prevalence, levels and/or subtypes, or requiring a specified reduction in a relevant indicator organism. Inputs will include prevalence, levels, and subtypes of Salmonella at various points in the production-to-consumption chain, along with pre-harvest and post-harvest production practices. FSIS will be able to use FSIS-generated data for some of the model inputs. Other inputs may be informed by published scientific studies, or expert elicitations.

Category: Agriculture.

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