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The Assisting the Integrated Food Safety Systems National Food/Feed Training Program (U54) grant opportunity focuses on enhancing the FDA's food safety inspection and enforcement efforts across various regulatory levels. Through collaboration with federal, state, territorial, and local partners, the FDA aims to establish an integrated food safety system (IFSS) to ensure compliance with food safety standards and prevent foodborne illnesses affecting both human and animal food.

Key objectives include improving risk assessment at food facilities, achieving consistent inspection coverage across the food supply chain, and enhancing food surveillance and rapid response capabilities for multi-state outbreaks. The program seeks to develop uniform national standards for food safety inspections, investigations, and training, fostering cooperation among all regulatory authorities.

The awardee's role involves creating and maintaining a national food/feed training program that will achieve ANSI/IACET accreditation, ensuring quality standards for training courses and instructors. The awardee will draft an implementation plan detailing necessary resources, develop a comprehensive inventory of training courses, and ensure that all offerings meet specific competencies aligned with core curricula. There will also be a focus on developing distance learning options to broaden accessibility.

Additionally, the awardee will work closely with the FDA to identify and fill any curriculum gaps, maintain a list of qualified instructors, and promote course offerings across various levels of food safety personnel. The overall goal is to build a competent workforce capable of delivering effective food safety training, ultimately leading to a more cohesive national food safety training program. The initiative is aligned with the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, emphasizing a proactive approach to food safety through education and training.

• The Food Drug Administration in the agriculture consumer protection disaster prevention and relief education environment food and nutrition health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Assisting the Integrated Food Safety Systems National Food/Feed Training Program (U54)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.103 Food and Drug AdministrationResearch.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 12, 2011 and posted on Jul 12, 2011.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 31, 2011. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $3,900,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,300,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Small businesses County governments Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education For profit organizations other than small businesses Private institutions of higher education State governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Independent school districts Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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