FSIS-FERN Food Emergency Management Program Cooperative Agreement

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	Federal Grant Title:	FSIS-FERN Food Emergency Management Program Cooperative Agreement
	CFDA Number:	10.479
	CFDA Description:	Food Safety Cooperative Agreements
	Federal Agency Name:	Food Safety Inspection Service
	Category of Funding Activity:	Agriculture Food and Nutrition
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	USDA-FSIS-FERN-07092008
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jul 09, 2008
	Creation Date:	Jul 09, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 16, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 16, 2008
	Archive Date:	Aug 15, 2008
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: State Emergency Management Agencies from TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, KY and Puerto Rico.
Grant Description: The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises 150+ federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. FERN has 41 cooperative agreements already in place which target state, local, and tribal FERN labs in an effort to augment the network's microbiological, chemical, and radiological threat agent testing capacities. The current FERN cooperative agreement labs also focus on developing better diagnostic capabilities for threat agent testing within the Network partner laboratories. These current cooperative agreements enhance the ability to analyze for microbiological, chemical and radiological threat agents utilizing FERN methods and improve laboratory capacities for food defense assignments and outbreak response. In support of emergency readiness, response and recovery efforts, FERN has been an integral participant of numerous state emergency response exercises that have warranted FERN state laboratory support as provided by the 150+ state laboratories within FERN, however frequent after action review identifies the lack of a comprehensive food emergency response plan that addresses the following systems: Notification, Communication, Deployment, Sampling, Field- Diagnostics, Chain of Custody, Transport, Fern-lab Diagnostics, FERN Reporting, After Action Gap Analyses, etc. Subsequent implementation of these established food emergency response systems would occur on a regular basis on a regional scale in support of the food safety and protection efforts of the USDA and FDA, collectively FERN. This Food Emergency Management Cooperative Agreement will augment the current FERN southeast regional coordination efforts and expand the number of comprehensive state food emergency response plans. Subsequent construction of a regional food emergency response plan and its implementation will augment the FSIS FERN mission for coordination and communication of food emergency efforts on a regional scale. This new Food Emergency Management Cooperative Agreement would support the administrative costs for coordination meetings, communications, scheduling, implementation exercises and related exercise costs. Procurement of meeting space and travel costs directly associated with such efforts must be according to state government per diem rates and reimbursement of personnel expenses. [NOTE: The agreements will not support construction costs.]
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: Thomas Beacorn VMO-Sr. Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3426

e-mail [thomas.beacorn@fsis.usda.gov]
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