Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health

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	Federal Grant Title:	Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health
	CFDA Number:	93.448
	CFDA Description:	Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project
	Federal Agency Name:	Food and Drug Administration
	Category of Funding Activity:	Health Environment Food and Nutrition Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	RFA-FDA-ORA-2006-4
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Aug 25, 2006
	Creation Date:	Aug 25, 2006
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 31, 2006 All applications submitted should be received August 31, 2006 with a date stamp prior to 4:30 pm eastern time.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Sep 30, 2006
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$500,000
	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 laboratories, state regulatory agencies with the required lab capacity and university laboratories that are currently state adjunct laboratories connected to state laboratory and/or regulatory agencies with the required state regulatory authority.
Grant Description: Funding Opportunity Description The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Division of Federal-State Relations (DFSR), is announcing the availability of cooperative agreements for equipment, supplies, personnel, training, and facility upgrades to Food Emergency Response Laboratory Network (FERN) radiological laboratories of State, local, and tribal governments. The cooperative agreements are to enable the analyses of foods and food products in the event that redundancy and/or additional laboratory surge capacity is needed by FERN for analyses related to radiological. terrorism or other emergency situation. These cooperative agreements are also intended to expand participation in networks to enhance Federal, State, local, and tribal governmental food safety and security efforts. The goal of ORA's cooperative agreement program is to complement and improve State, local and Indian tribal governmental food safety and security testing programs. This will be accomplished through the provision of supplies, personnel, facility upgrades, training in current food testing methodologies,participation in proficiency testing to establish additional reliable laboratory sample analysis capacity, participation in method enhancement activities to extend analysis capability, and analysis of surveillance samples. In the event of a large-scale radiological terrorism event affecting foods or food products, the recipient may be required to perform selected radiological analyses of domestic and imported food samples collected and supplied to the laboratory by FDA or other Federal agencies through FDA. These samples may consist, of, but are not limited to, the following: vegetables and fruits (fresh and packaged) ; juices (concentrate and diluted) ; grains and grain products; seafood and other fish products ; milk and other dairy products; infant formula; baby foods ; bottled water; condiments; and alcoholic beverage products . All grant application projects that are developed at State, local, and tribal governmental levels must have national application that can enhance Federal food safety and security programs . At the discretion of the FDA, successful project formats will be made available to interested Federal, State, local and tribal government FERN laboratories . There are two key project areas identified for this effort: (1) The use of Gamma Spectrometry analysis for the screening and identification of gamma emitting radionuclides in foods; and (2) The use of Beta Spectrometry analysis for the screening and identification of beta emitting radionuclides in foods. FDA will support the projects covered by this notice under the authority of section 312 of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) (Public Law 107-188) . This program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance under 93 .448.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Register /Vol. 71, No. 164/Thursday, August 24, 2006 Federal Register Notice
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Phone 301-827-7162 Marc.Pitts@FDA.HHS.GOV electronic submission contact
Similar Government Grants: • Opportunity RFA-FD-10-003; • Opportunity RFA-FD-10-004; • Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project; • Food Safety & Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health-ORA; • Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project (FERN)