FSIS FERN Proficiency Testing Cooperative Agreement

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	Federal Grant Title:	FSIS FERN Proficiency Testing 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-06302008
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jun 30, 2008
	Creation Date:	Jul 09, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 11, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 11, 2008
	Archive Date:	Aug 10, 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: governmental laboratories (state, local, or tribal laboratories) and university laboratories.
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 FERN 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 the network, FERN has established a PT program conducted by FDA which tests the technical capability of the FERN partner laboratories. This new proposed PT cooperative agreement will augment the current PT program and expand the number of PT agents and matrices currently conducted by FDA throughout the year. This new PT cooperative agreement would support the purchase of equipment and supplies required by the methods and matrices selected in the PT program, and reimbursement of personnel expenses. [NOTE: The agreements do not support construction costs.]
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: Michael Myers Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3664

email [michael.myers1@fsis.usda.gov]
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