Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA FD 24 016
This funding opportunity (RFA FD 24 016) is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cooperative agreement designed to strengthen global food safety systems in response to a food supply chain that is becoming more diverse, more interconnected, and more complex. The core idea is to support work that builds practical knowledge, tools, and capacity so that food safety problems are prevented before they occur, rather than addressed only after outbreaks or trade disruptions happen. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement (U01), which typically means FDA expects to have substantial involvement in the work as it is carried out, including coordination, technical input, and alignment with shared objectives.
The program is explicitly tied to FDA priorities under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and FDA's International Food Safety Capacity Building Plan. In practice, this means the funded activities should reinforce preventive, system-based food safety approaches, and should help countries and stakeholders develop stronger, more sustainable regulatory and technical capacity. A major emphasis is on building relationships and mutual support across stakeholders, including multilateral bodies, to make food safety improvements more coordinated and scalable internationally.
A central goal is to support the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) as a platform for leveraging resources and cooperation across WTO member countries. The opportunity aims to expand FDA's ability to address global food safety and public health issues linked to food, while also using the STDF network to mobilize additional contributions, expertise, and partnerships that go beyond what FDA could accomplish alone. Another stated focus is to support global research and capacity-building efforts that identify and spread best practices for effective food safety systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where gaps in infrastructure, training, laboratory capability, surveillance, and enforcement can increase both public health risk and barriers to safe trade.
Key administrative details are straightforward. The funding instrument is a discretionary cooperative agreement under the Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Food and Nutrition category (CFDA 93.103). FDA expects to make a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $750,000. The opportunity was created on 2024-03-06 and had an original application closing date of 2024-05-10. Clinical trials are not allowed under this funding announcement, which signals that the work is intended to be programmatic, capacity-building, research-supportive, and systems-focused rather than involving clinical intervention studies.
Eligibility is extremely limited and is the defining feature of this announcement. Competition is restricted to only one eligible applicant: the WTO Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). Although the work itself is global in scope, the application may not be submitted by foreign organizations or non-U.S. entities, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible to apply. In addition, foreign components (as defined by the HHS Grants Policy Statement) are not allowed. In other words, the award is intended to be made to the STDF specifically, under conditions that keep the award and its formal components within the allowable U.S. grants policy framework.
Overall, this opportunity is essentially a targeted, single-recipient cooperative agreement meant to deepen international collaboration on preventive food safety systems, align global capacity-building with FDA's FSMA-driven strategy, and use the STDF mechanism to broaden reach and impact, especially in low- and middle-income countries where improved food safety systems can significantly reduce public health risk and support safer trade.Apply for RFA FD 24 016
- The Food and Drug Administration in the agriculture, consumer protection, food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Agreement to Support the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.103.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-10. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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