Agriculture Food and Research Initiative: Food Safety Challenge Area

 

This AFRI Challenge Area promotes and enhances the scientific discipline of food safety, with an overall aim of protecting consumers from microbial and chemical contaminants that may occur during all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption. This requires an understanding of the interdependencies of human, animal, and ecosystem health as it pertains to foodborne pathogens. The long-term outcome for this program is to reduce foodborne illnesses and deaths by improving the safety of the food supply, which will result in reduced impacts on public health and on our economy. In order to achieve this outcome, this program will support single-function Research Projects and multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants that address one of the Program Area Priorities (see Food Safety RFA for details).

Deleted 06/07/2014 (Archived.) USDA-NIFA-AFRI-004434 Agency: Department of Agriculture
Office: National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant Eligibility is linked to the project type. All project types are described beginning in Part II, C. Letters of Intent (LOI) are required by this program and must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on February 26, 2014. 05/08/2014 This program has cost sharing or matching requirements. NIFA Help Desk
Phone: 202-401-5048
Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET, excluding Federal holidays
http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/afri.html electronic@nifa.usda.gov $11,000,000.00 Awards up to $5,000,000.00