FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program
The summary for the FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program grant is detailed below.
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FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program: The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The Contaminants and Threat Agents Group (CTAG) within the Laboratory Quality Assurance, Response and Coordination Staff (LQARCS) in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking to award new cooperative agreements thereby continuing its program of providing surge capacity and capability for food defense and food safety testing to FSIS. The agreements enhance the ability to analyze meat, poultry, and meat and egg products for microbiological, chemical, and radiological agents utilizing approved FERN methods to improve laboratory capacities for food defense initiatives, outbreak response, and other food testing projects. The agreements support the FERN program testing initiatives, method proficiency training, method-required supply and equipment purchases, and reimbursement of personnel expenses. All cooperative agreements are awarded yearly and part of a 5-year cycle. This announcement will constitute the 1st year of a 5-year cycle. Yearly awards are contingent upon continued Agency funding and a review of each laboratory participant’s past performance where possible. The FSIS FERN CAP laboratories will test FSIS regulated products in a variety of food defense and food safety activities providing additional meat, poultry, and meat and egg products testing capacity and capability to the FSIS Field Service Laboratories. These activities support FSIS’s mission to protect the public's health by ensuring that meat, poultry and egg products are safe, wholesome and properly labeled. The FERN CAP initiatives allow the selected laboratories to provide surge capacity and special project testing for food defense and food safety topics. Laboratories will be involved in on-going testing of meat matrices for food safety and food defense analytes, method development, method validation, and special directed projects that meet FSIS data gathering needs. Long term planning is not always possible for these activities, so laboratories with the capability to respond quickly and with the greatest variety of capabilities are preferred.
Federal Grant Title: | FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program |
Federal Agency Name: | Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) |
Grant Categories: | Agriculture |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | FSIS-03142024 |
Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
CFDA Numbers: | 10.479 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
Current Application Deadline: | April 22nd, 2024 |
Original Application Deadline: | April 22nd, 2024 |
Posted Date: | March 14th, 2024 |
Creation Date: | March 14th, 2024 |
Archive Date: | May 22nd, 2024 |
Total Program Funding: | $1,985,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $246,875 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $230,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
Last Updated: | March 14th, 2024 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Eligible Applicants – Only FERN member laboratories with active status in the FERN CCM Portal (www.fernlab.org ) are eligible for funding. This includes Public or State Higher Education Institutions, State Governments, County Governments and Federally Recognized Indian and Native American Tribal Governments. Submissions from laboratories that are not FERN members or FERN members with an inactive status on the proposal submission due date, April 22, 2024, will not be reviewed and will not be eligible for funding.
- Grant Announcement Contact
- USDA-FSIS LQARCS
Contaminants and Threat Agents Group
706-713-5681
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