Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health

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Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health: 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.
Federal Grant Title: Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project Radiological Health
Federal Agency Name: Food and Drug Administration
Grant Categories: Health Environment Food and Nutrition Science and Technology
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FDA-ORA-2006-4
Type of Funding: Grant Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers: 93.448
CFDA Descriptions: Food Safety and Security Monitoring Project
Current Application Deadline: No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2006 All applications submitted should be
Posted Date: Aug 25, 2006
Creation Date: Aug 25, 2006
Archive Date: Sep 30, 2006
Total Program Funding:
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $500,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching: 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.
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