Animal Food Regulatory Program Alliance
Food and Drug Administration
The goal of FDA/ORA's Cooperative Agreement Program is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national food safety system by strengthening interagency collaboration, improving States' regulatory and surveillance protection programs for manufactured foods, conducting research, and promotion of the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS). Objectives include: 1. Support the efforts of federal and state government agencies to build a national integrated animal food safety system; 2. Establish systems for sharing, promotion, and collaboration of best practices, guidance documents, sampling plans, procedures, memorandums of understanding, and other tools to facilitate and encourage mutual reliance between federal and state animal food regulatory programs and public health agencies; 3. Identify, develop, deliver promote, and/or assist with attendance of animal food safety training programs to support implementation of the AFRPS, as well as training and stakeholder support for provisions of FSMA; and 4. Support the advancement of the AFRPS and future revisions of the AFRPS as part of a system of continuous improvement to ensure the standards are modernized and support the nee Awards range from $600,000 to $600,000.
Deadline
Not published. Check the funder's page.
Who can apply
The national associations /organizations eligible to apply for funding under this cooperative agreement must be a national organization that represents State animal food regulatory programs as a primary purpose. National Associations/Organizations have the membership, resources, structure, and expertise necessary to build national consensus amongst state agencies on key animal food safety issues. They are the primary means for communication and collaboration on issues of national significance for state agencies. The outcomes are position statements, resolutions, and legislation that are unifor
Sources
Grants.gov. Last updated 2026-10-26.
Always confirm eligibility and deadlines on the funder's own page before applying.