FDA Working to Award WHO Food Safety Grant
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to award a cooperative agreement to the World Health Organization (WHO) in order to advance food safety initiatives that encourage closer collaboration between the health sector and other sectors, and increase action at the international and national levels, across the full spectrum of the food-production chain.
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FDA states that WHO was selected as its technical support expertise complements a paradigm shift that is emerging around the globe; a shift from a focus on food safety interventions at ports-of-entry toward an approach that emphasizes preventive, risk-based efforts. This shift entails increasing accountability of entities along the supply chain that grow, harvest, manufacture, process, store, transport, distribute, and/or import foods for ensuring the safety of their products, while at the same time strengthening national authorities' capacity and systems to be able to regulate these products efficiently and effectively.
FDA has also issued a correction stating that the total funding available is up to $360,000 (total costs including indirect costs) in fiscal year 2011 in support of this project (corrected from $260,000). FDA's correction notice (FR Pub 07/26/11) is available here.