Food Safety & Public Health Department: Manufactured Food Compliance & Enforcement Expansion Grant

– Currently holds an award under RFA-FD-18-001 “Flexible Funding Model – Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs” and is satisfactorily meeting the conditions of the award; and
– Currently is conducting human food inspections under contract with the FDA and maintains a food safety inspection contract in good standing for the duration of the award project period; and
– Collaborates with one or more human food testing laboratories currently holding an award under PAR-20-105 "Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) and participating in the Human Food Product Testing Track(s) – Micro or Chem" with the LFFM lab in the same state as the FFM CAP program.

The goal of this cooperative agreement is to advance public health by building the capacity and capability of grantees to take the appropriate action in response to confirmed and potentially violative samples identified as part of the Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) cooperative agreement.

By participating in this program expansion, the capabilities of the laboratory and regulatory programs will be integrated to ensure a comprehensive approach to the prevention, identification, containment, and removal of adulterated, contaminated, or mislabeled products in the marketplace.