Agriculture Food and Research Initiative: Food Safety Challenge Area

Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-NIFA-AFRI-004434 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureFood and NutritionCFDA Number: 10.310Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: USDA-NIFAClosing Date: May 08, 2014Award Ceiling: $5,000,000Expected Number of Awards: Creation Date: Jan 29, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: This AFRI Challenge Area promotes and enhances the scientific discipline of food safety, with an overall aim of protecting consumers from microbial and chemical contaminants that may occur during all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption. This requires an understanding of the interdependencies of human, animal, and ecosystem health as it pertains to foodborne pathogens. The long-term outcome for this program is to reduce foodborne illnesses and deaths by improving the safety of the food supply, which will result in reduced impacts on public health and on our economy. In order to achieve this outcome, this program will support single-function Research Projects and multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants that address one of the Program Area Priorities (see Food Safety RFA for details).

Source: Grants.gov - February 3, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Food and Nutrition Source Type: funding