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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
PAR-09-215
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jun 17, 2009
Creation Date:
Jun 17, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 29, 2011
THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2009 APPLICATIONS IS JULY 29, 2009.
SUBSEQUENT APPLICATION DUE DATES WILL BE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS: JULY 29, 2010, JULY 29, 2011.
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 29, 2011
THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2009 APPLICATIONS IS JULY 29, 2009.
SUBSEQUENT APPLICATION DUE DATES WILL BE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS: JULY 29, 2010, JULY 29, 2011.
Archive Date:
Aug 30, 2011
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Agriculture
Consumer Protection
Disaster Prevention and Relief
Education
Employment, Labor and Training
Environment
Food and Nutrition
Health
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
20
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$10,000,000
Award Ceiling:
$250,000
Award Floor:
$250,000
CFDA Number(s):
93.103
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Food and Drug Administration_Research
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
State governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
This cooperative agreement program is only available to State, Local, and Tribal government FERN laboratories and is authorized by section 312 of the Bioterrorism Act. All grant application projects that are developed at State, Local, and Tribal levels must have national implication or application that can enhance Federal food safety and security programs. At the discretion of FDA, successful project formats will be made available to interested Federal, State, Local, and Tribal government FERN laboratories.
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the PD/PI is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for FDA support.
To be a FERN Microbiological laboratory, an applicant institution must have an approval letter from the FERN National Program Office approving the applicant institution’s as a FERN Chemistry laboratory prior to the application receipt date.
Agency Name
Food & Drug Administration
Description
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Emergency Response Laboratory Network (FERN) Microbiological Cooperative Agreement Program Grant mechanism (U18) is to solicit applications from institutions/ organizations for inclusion into its Microbiology Cooperative Agreement Program. The FERN cooperative agreements are intended to target state, local, and tribal FERN labs to provide increased sample analyses in the event of food outbreaks or other large-scale food emergency events requiring surge capacity testing of implicated food samples. These samples could involve foods and/or environmental samples related to foods, and will be collected by Federal, State, or local agencies. Numbers of samples and scheduling of samples will be done by the FERN National Program Office (NPO) in coordination with State/Local lab authorities. Federal or State surveillance assignments will also be a source of samples for lab analysis. The FDA estimates that the analysis of 500 samples per year would be optimal.
These grant agreements will also be utilized to implement standardized analysis results through the usage of standardized methods, equipment platforms (provided by the grant), analytical worksheets, and electronic reporting. Also provided will be training and proficiency testing for each method/platform. Minimal quality management systems will be initiated for each lab, based on existing systems in place in each lab and consultations between the FERN NPO and each lab management group.
Grantees will also be involved in small-scale, short-term method development and method validation projects as directed by the FERN NPO. Matrix extension assignments are also required and can have the potential of requiring rapid turn-around times to respond to food outbreaks.
Grant funds will be awarded for the equipment, an FTE and some of the yearly operating and maintenance costs.
Each laboratory shall develop its own consensus decision making, size and format. Federal agency representatives may be invited to be nonmember liaisons or advisors to the laboratory and its meetings. Grant funds may not be used for Federal employees to travel to or participate in these meetings.
