OpportunityTitle: Food Protection Rapid Response Team (RRT) (U18)
Description: 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/regulatory components; 2) Improving States&apos; regulatory and surveillance food/feed protection programs to include using Incident Command System (ICS)/National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles and a Unified Command structure to conduct integrated responses to all-hazards food/feed emergencies, rapidly identifying and removing tainted food from commerce, and conducting root cause investigations to inform future prevention efforts; and 3) Addressing supporting components, such as training, data sharing, data analysis, communications, continuous process improvement, and development of best practices and other resources to support national capacity/capability development. This will be accomplished through the provision of funding to support multi-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) for program improvement and will require extensive cooperation and coordination with FDA District Offices and other FDA program offices.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: daniel.lukash@fda.hhs.gov
GrantorContactText: Daniel Lukash &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 240-402-7596
CloseDateExplanation: Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)  May 15, 2015 and January 5, 2016      Letter of Intent Due Date(s)  May 28, 2015 and January 15, 2016, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.      Application Due Date(s)  July 15, 2015 (FY2015) and March 8, 2016 (FY2016), by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.