National Curriculum Standard Development for Integrated Food Safety System Regulators (U18)

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA),Office of Resource Management (ORM), Division of Human Resource Development (DHRD) is announcing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for a Cooperative Agreement Grant. The goals of this Cooperative Agreement Grant are to continue the development of the Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS) National Curriculum Standard (NCS) competency and curriculum frameworks, further work on the development and validation of competency statements, and create and pilot course content based on analysis data and findings with subject matter experts that address the required knowledge, skills, and abilities of regulators within an IFSS. These efforts are important to improving the training of state, local, territorial, and tribal food safety officials.