Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards Implementation Development and Maintenance, with Mutual Reliance Initiatives Clinical Trials Not Allowed
Last verified by NonDilute: 2026-04-29. Official notice and agency instructions control.
State animal food regulators: get up to $300K to build integrated safety systems and strengthen partnerships with FDA for mutual reliance.
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What this is
This is a state-focused grant for strengthening animal food safety systems across the U.S. States can apply for up to $300K to achieve full implementation of Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) within 5 years and maintain them afterward. The program emphasizes building partnerships, standardizing processes, and creating mutual reliance between state and federal regulators to improve foodborne illness prevention. Not suited for clinical trials or private sector applicants.
Who can apply
Only state government agencies are eligible to apply. This grant is exclusively for state animal food regulatory programs; private companies, solo founders, startups, and universities cannot apply. Federal and local government agencies are also ineligible.
Eligible applicant types
- State governments
Full description — from the agency
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to advance efforts for a nationally integrated animal food safety system providing state animal food regulatory programs the ability to achieve full implementation of the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) within 5 years and to maintain full implementation. This NOFO will also fund optional projects for state animal food regulatory programs to: Advance food safety and protect public health by strengthening partnerships with the FDA and other state animal food regulatory partners through sharing, collaboration, coordination, and leveraging each other’s expertise, work, data, and enforcement actions. Develop and standardize processes, procedures, systems, and other methods to integrate federal and state animal food regulatory work resulting in mutual reliance. Specific outcomes may include, but are not limited to: State animal food regulatory programs will achieve and maintain implementation of the AFRPS, which is recognized as a critical element to creating a national, fully integrated food safety system. Operational use of standardized animal food regulatory systems developed by state programs to compel federal reliance on state regulatory work and resources and reciprocal state reliance on federal work and resources, resulting in mutual reliance. This project will strengthen and improve FDA efforts to build an integrated food safety system by building high quality state animal food regulatory programs that can promote regulatory compliance and prevent foodborne illnesses.
Topics: animal food safety · state regulatory programs · FDA partnerships · food safety standards · federal-state coordination
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