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

RFA-FD-23-019: Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Closed Closed April 21, 2023 Opportunity RFA-FD-23-019 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed (FOR-FD-24-015). Status: Forecast, no dates yet. It is in our archive of Food and Drug Administration notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$360,000
• Expected awards25
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments.

• State governments

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Food and Drug Administration Research awards averaged $1.3 million; this notice allows up to $360,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (35% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• 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.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, FOR-FD-24-015, which is forecast.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.