OpportunityTitle: National Consumer Food Safety Education Conference (U13)
Description: The purpose of the National Consumer Food Safety Education Conference is to advance the knowledge, practice and effectiveness of health and food safety educators in support of two Healthy People 2020 goals: FS-1: To reduce infections caused by key pathogens transmitted commonly through food FS-5: To increase the proportion of consumers who follow key food safety practices The proposed conference follows on prior successful conferences (1997, 2002, 2006, and 2010) that were jointly sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Food and Drug Administration for the purposes of enhancing public education and outreach to improve food handling practices, and for strengthening collaboration among internal and external stakeholders to prevent foodborne illness. There is great potential to engage health and food safety educators more directly as partners in support of the government&#146;s efforts to prevent foodborne illness. A conference designed to activate field-based educators can be a powerful way to exponentially increase exposure of American consumers to critical evidence-based food safety practices that can reduce incidence of foodborne illness.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Grants Specialist Email
GrantorContactText: Martin Bernard &lt;br/&gt;Grants Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 301-443-5869
CloseDateExplanation: This FOA has a Single Receipt Date.      The Application Receipt/Due date is  7/15/2013 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time    Applicants should be aware that on-time submission means that an application is submitted error free (of both Grants.gov and eRA Commons errors) before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the application due date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications to Grants.gov several days early to ensure enough time to correct any errors and to comply with the deadline.  Late applications will not be accepted for this announcement.