Food Protection Rapid Response Team (RRT) (U18)

Post Date

May 11th 2015

Application Due Date

March 8th 2016

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) May 15, 2015 and January 5, 2016 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) May 28, 2015 and January 15, 2016, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Application Due Date(s) July 15, 2015 (FY2015) and March 8, 2016 (FY2016), by

Funding Opportunity Number

RFA-FD-15-020

CFDA Number(s)

93.103

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Food and Nutrition
Health

Number of Awards

18

Eligibility Categories

State Governments

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $5400000

• Award Range:

  $None - $450000

Grant Description

The goal of these cooperative agreements is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national integrated food safety system by unifying and coordinating federal/state/local food/feed emergency response efforts including: 1) Strengthening the link among epidemiology, lab and environmental health/regulatory components; 2) Improving States' regulatory and surveillance food/feed 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 food/feed 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 capacity/capability development. This will be accomplished through the provision of funding to support multi-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) for program improvement and will require extensive cooperation and coordination with FDA District Offices and other FDA program offices.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Food and Drug Administration

• Agency Contact:

  Daniel Lukash
  Grants Management Specialist
  Phone 240-402-7596

• Agency Mailing Address:

  daniel.lukash@fda.hhs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  daniel.lukash@fda.hhs.gov

• More Information:

  Full Announcement of RFA-FD-15-020 on NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts