Egg Regulatory Program’s Grant for State Conformance and National System Integration

The intended outcome of this funding opportunity announcement is to advance efforts for a nationally integrated egg regulatory system by assisting state egg regulatory programs to achieve and maintain full conformance with the Egg Regulatory Program Standards (ERPS). The ERPS Cooperative Agreement will provide funding for state egg regulatory programs to:

1. Advance conformance with the Standards (ERPS)

2. Enhance the grantee’s egg regulatory and public health program

3. Share egg regulatory inspection, compliance and enforcement, and laboratory information and data between states and the FDA

4. Better leveraging of state regulatory resources and directing regulatory activities at reducing egg-related illness, attributed to shell egg hazards in facilities that produce, process, pack, hold or transport shell egg and materials/supplies, including those facilities not subject to the Egg Rule.

Subtitle A of Title III—Protection of Food Supply, Section 311—Grants to States for Inspections, amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) by adding section 1009, which authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states, territories, localities, Indian tribes, and nonprofit food safety training entities that collaborate with one or more institutions of higher education to enhance food safety. Only these entities, subject to FSMA, are eligible to apply. Further, eligibility depends on the entity submitting to FDA an application including (A) an assurance that the eligible entity has developed plans to engage in the types of activities described in this RFA; (B) a description of the types of activities to be funded by the cooperative agreement; (C) an itemization of how funds received under this agreement will be expended; (D) a description of how activities will be monitored; and (E) an agreement by the eligible entity to report information required by FDA to conduct evaluations under this agreement.

Full text: http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Legislation/ucm155769.htm.

Egg Inspection Contracts:

This opportunity is only available to current egg inspection contract program states, or those willing to enter into an egg inspection contract along with this cooperative agreement. Competition is limited to these egg regulatory programs because the foundational work conducted under the current FDA egg safety inspection contracts is necessary for the completion of significant improvements in a nationally integrated food safety system.

20.88 Information Disclosure Agreement:

Awardees must have or be willing to enter into a long-term 20.88 information sharing agreement with the FDA.

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The intended outcome of this funding opportunity announcement is to advance efforts for a nationally integrated egg regulatory system by assisting state egg regulatory programs to achieve and maintain full conformance with the Egg Regulatory Program Standards (ERPS). The ERPS Cooperative Agreement will provide funding for state egg regulatory programs to:

1. Advance conformance with the Standards (ERPS)

2. Enhance the grantee’s egg regulatory and public health program

3. Share egg regulatory inspection, compliance and enforcement, and laboratory information and data between states and the FDA

4. Better leveraging of state regulatory resources and directing regulatory activities at reducing egg-related illness, attributed to shell egg hazards in facilities that produce, process, pack, hold or transport shell egg and materials/supplies, including those facilities not subject to the Egg Rule.