Food Protection Rapid Response Team

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FD-13-006 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureBusiness and CommerceConsumer ProtectionFood and NutritionHealthInformation and StatisticsRegional DevelopmentScience and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 93.103Eligible Applicants State governmentsAgency Name: HHS-FDAClosing Date: Jul 01, 2013Award Ceiling: $300,000Expected Number of Awards: 9Creation Date: Apr 18, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued to announce the availability of up to nine (9) cooperative agreements to be awarded under a Limited Competition.These cooperative agreements are intended to develop, implement, maintain and sustain multi-jurisdictional Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) that operate using Incident Command System (ICS)/National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles and a Unified Command structure to support integrated all-hazards preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery/prevention efforts for food/feed within the national integrated food safety system.The goal of these cooperative agreements is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national integrated food safety system by unifying and coordinating federal/state/local food/feed emergency response efforts including:1) Strengthening the link among epidemiology, lab and environmental health component...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Business and Commerce Consumer Protection Food and Nutrition Health Information and Statistics Regional Development Science and Technology and other Research and Development Source Type: funding