80 FR 30470 - Integrated Food Safety System Online Collaboration Development
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 102 (May 28, 2015)
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 102 (May 28, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-12853 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 102 (Thursday, May 28, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 30470-30471] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-12853] [[Page 30470]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0480] Integrated Food Safety System Online Collaboration Development AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of grant funds for the support of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). The goal of the NCFPD is to provide well-established and high-level access to Food/Agriculture Sector Organizations and coordination of electronic collaborative tools; collaborative support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NCFPD also has past experience directly supporting the President's Food Safety Working Group Objectives to integrate the food safety system at all levels. DATES: Important dates are as follows: 1. The application due date is July 15, 2015. 2. The anticipated start date is September 2015. 3. The opening date is May 15, 2015. 4. The expiration date is July 16, 2015. ADDRESSES: Submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov. For more information, see section III of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicola Areshenko, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Regulatory Affairs, 253-987-7921, email: [email protected]; or Dan Lukash, Grants Management Specialist, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions & Grant Services, 240-402-7596, [email protected]. For more information on this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and to obtain detailed requirements, please refer to the full FOA located at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide (select the ``Request for Applications'' link), http://www.grants.gov (see ``For Applicants'' section), and http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=rfa-fd-15-024. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Funding Opportunity Description RFA-FD-15-021 93.103 A. Background Food can become contaminated at many different points--on the farm, in processing or distribution facilities, during transit, at retail and food service establishments, and in the home. In recent years, FDA, in cooperation with other food regulatory and public health agencies, has done a great deal to prevent both intentional and unintentional contamination of food at each of these points. FDA has worked with other Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and foreign counterpart food safety regulatory and public health agencies, as well as with law enforcement and intelligence-gathering agencies, and with industry, consumer groups, and academia, to strengthen the nation's food safety and food defense system across the entire distribution chain. This cooperation has resulted in greater awareness of potential vulnerabilities, the creation of more effective prevention programs, new surveillance systems, and the ability to respond more quickly to outbreaks of foodborne illness. However, changes in consumer dietary patterns, changes in industry practices, changes in the U.S. population, an increasingly globalized food supply chain, and new pathogens and other contaminants pose challenges that are requiring us to adapt our current food protection strategies. At the Federal level, a number of agencies are working together to coordinate their efforts and develop short- and long-term agendas to make food safer. As the Federal regulatory Agency responsible for most of the nation's food supply,\1\ FDA is committed to ensuring that the food \2\ supply is among the safest in the world. This requires a systematic, integrated approach to effective risk control and enforcement strategies. Together with our Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial public health partners, FDA is working to plan and implement an inspection and enforcement program to ensure high rates of compliance with the Agency's food safety standards. FDA intends to establish a fully integrated national food safety system built on collaboration among all of these partners. This system will encompass inspections, laboratory testing, and outbreak response and will place priority on preventing foodborne illness, in both food for humans and animals. This collaboration will result in: (1) Better ability to assess potential risk at domestic food facilities and greater and more consistent inspectional coverage of these facilities across the entire food supply chain, (2) greater food surveillance through integration of food facility inspection and testing information, and (3) improved rapid response capacity and efficiency. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ FDA is the Federal Agency that is responsible for regulating most of the country's food supply, with the exception of most meat, poultry, and processed egg products, which are overseen by the USDA. \2\ For purposes of this document, the term ``food'' includes human food, animal feed, components (i.e. ingredients) of both food and feed, and dietary supplements for humans, except as otherwise noted. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current leveraging efforts have not been sufficient to ensure adequate oversight of the entire food supply chain. Food facilities are not uniformly inspected, data are not uniformly captured on a national basis, and the data that are collected are not systematically mined for intelligence. Neither FDA nor our regulatory or public health partners alone collect and analyze a sufficient number of surveillance samples per year to have confidence in to the ability to effectively identify potential areas of concern; combining the data from all public health partners would greatly enhance FDA's ability to detect potential problems. In addition, national response efforts are uneven. Throughout the years, numerous reports have concluded that FDA does not take full advantage of the inspectional and surveillance capabilities of our state, territorial, tribal and local regulatory and public health partners. This is due in large part to the varied standards and laws in each state as compared with the Federal system, as well as to the lack of interoperable data systems and legal impediments to sharing data among partners. These combined factors present a challenge in managing and responding to signals of public health concern in the food supply. The currently decentralized U.S. public health and agriculture system results in a situation in which responsibility for surveillance, detection, investigation, response, and recovery to foodborne disease outbreaks is shared across Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local government agencies. Various levels of government are working to improve the nation's food safety and defense system. At all levels, there is a call for greater integration and coordination between the Federal agencies and the regulatory and public health partners involved in food safety. An integrated food safety system will allow FDA to meet the President's Food Safety Working Group recommendation that the Federal government ``. . . prioritize crucial inspection and enforcement activity across the world, [[Page 30471]] support safety efforts by States, localities, and businesses at home; and utilize data to guide these efforts and evaluate their outcomes.'' \3\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \3\ President's Food Safety Working Group Key Findings Report submitted to President Obama on July 7, 2009. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be fully successful, the national food safety system must be built with continuous input from FDA's regulatory and public health partners. Efforts shall facilitate information sharing and communication among all partners, and include infrastructure for a national electronic information-sharing mechanism. These actions will result in a national food safety system that identifies sources of risk throughout the system and reduces time to detect and respond to foodborne outbreaks. A public health-driven, collaborative, and leveraged approach to food safety activities and responsibilities will be reflected in improved public sector resource utilization at a national level, which provides additional capacity for ensuring a safe and secure food supply. B. Research Objectives The Office of Regulatory Affairs, in coordination with FDA's Office of Foods, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and Center for Veterinary Medicine, is soliciting a cooperative grant proposal to expedite program development to support critical federal-state collaboration necessary to plan and implement an integrated food safety system. The intent is to fund proposals for the continued development and operations of collaborative online tools involving a range of stakeholders for the purposes of: (1) Information sharing in the development of an integrated food safety system and (2) developing and implementing a sustainable model for continued collaborative communication and information sharing. This grant opportunity is limited to organizations receiving funding under the current Integrated Food Safety System Online Collaboration Development cooperative agreement. The NCFPD, a DHS Center of Excellence, has unique expertise and capacity found nowhere else. It is the host/creator of FoodSHIELD, an inter-governmental collaborative project supporting information sharing at the Federal, State, and local levels. NCFPD is uniquely qualified to provide: Well-established and high-level access to Food/ Agriculture Sector Organizations and coordination of electronic collaborative tools; collaborative support from HHS, DHS, and the USDA. NCFPD also has past experience directly supporting the President's Food Safety Working Group Objectives to integrate the food safety system at all levels. C. Eligibility Information The following organizations/institutions are eligible to apply: This cooperative agreement is only available to organizations receiving funding under the current Integrated Food Safety System Online Collaboration Development cooperative agreement. Competition is limited to NCFPD because it is uniquely qualified and has expertise and capacity found nowhere else. It is the host/creator of FoodSHIELD, an intergovernmental collaborative project supporting information sharing at the federal, state and local levels. NCFPD is uniquely qualified to provide: Well-established and high-level access to Food/Agriculture Sector Organizations and coordination of electronic collaborative tools; collaborative support from HHS, DHS, and the USDA. NCFPD also has past experience directly supporting the President's Food Safety Working Group Objectives to integrate the food safety system at all levels. II. Award Information/Funds Available A. Award Amount One award up to $680,000 for fiscal year 2015 with up to an additional 4 years funding up to $680,000 per year. B. Length of Support Up to 5 years. III. Electronic Application, Registration, and Submission Only electronic applications will be accepted. To submit an electronic application in response to this FOA, applicants should first review the full announcement located at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide. (FDA has verified the Web site addresses throughout this document but FDA is not responsible for any subsequent changes to the Web sites after this document publishes in the Federal Register.) For all electronically submitted applications, the following steps are required.Step 1: Obtain a Dun and Bradstreet (DUNS) Number Step 2: Register With System for Award Management (SAM) Step 3: Obtain Username & Password Step 4: Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) Authorization Step 5: Track AOR Status Step 6: Register With Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Commons Steps 1 through 5, in detail, can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp. Step 6, in detail, can be found at https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/registration/registrationInstructions.jsp. After you have followed these steps, submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov. Dated: May 21, 2015. Leslie Kux, Associate Commissioner for Policy. 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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 93.103 inspections, laboratory testing, and
HUMAN SERVICES A. Background outbreak response and will place
priority on preventing foodborne illness,
Food and Drug Administration Food can become contaminated at in both food for humans and animals.
many different points—on the farm, in This collaboration will result in: (1)
[Docket No. FDA–2010–N–0480] processing or distribution facilities, Better ability to assess potential risk at
during transit, at retail and food service domestic food facilities and greater and
Integrated Food Safety System Online
establishments, and in the home. In more consistent inspectional coverage of
Collaboration Development
recent years, FDA, in cooperation with these facilities across the entire food
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, other food regulatory and public health supply chain, (2) greater food
HHS. agencies, has done a great deal to surveillance through integration of food
ACTION: Notice. prevent both intentional and facility inspection and testing
unintentional contamination of food at information, and (3) improved rapid
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug each of these points. FDA has worked response capacity and efficiency.
Administration (FDA) is announcing the with other Federal, State, local, tribal, Current leveraging efforts have not
availability of grant funds for the territorial, and foreign counterpart food been sufficient to ensure adequate
support of the National Center for Food safety regulatory and public health oversight of the entire food supply
Protection and Defense (NCFPD). The agencies, as well as with law chain. Food facilities are not uniformly
goal of the NCFPD is to provide well- enforcement and intelligence-gathering inspected, data are not uniformly
established and high-level access to agencies, and with industry, consumer captured on a national basis, and the
Food/Agriculture Sector Organizations groups, and academia, to strengthen the data that are collected are not
and coordination of electronic nation’s food safety and food defense systematically mined for intelligence.
collaborative tools; collaborative system across the entire distribution Neither FDA nor our regulatory or
support from the Department of Health chain. public health partners alone collect and
and Human Services (HHS), the This cooperation has resulted in analyze a sufficient number of
Department of Homeland Security greater awareness of potential surveillance samples per year to have
(DHS), and the U.S. Department of vulnerabilities, the creation of more confidence in to the ability to effectively
Agriculture (USDA). NCFPD also has effective prevention programs, new identify potential areas of concern;
past experience directly supporting the surveillance systems, and the ability to combining the data from all public
President’s Food Safety Working Group respond more quickly to outbreaks of health partners would greatly enhance
Objectives to integrate the food safety foodborne illness. However, changes in FDA’s ability to detect potential
system at all levels. consumer dietary patterns, changes in problems. In addition, national response
DATES: Important dates are as follows:
industry practices, changes in the U.S. efforts are uneven. Throughout the
1. The application due date is July 15, population, an increasingly globalized years, numerous reports have concluded
2015. food supply chain, and new pathogens that FDA does not take full advantage of
2. The anticipated start date is and other contaminants pose challenges the inspectional and surveillance
September 2015. that are requiring us to adapt our capabilities of our state, territorial, tribal
3. The opening date is May 15, 2015. current food protection strategies. and local regulatory and public health
4. The expiration date is July 16, At the Federal level, a number of partners. This is due in large part to the
2015. agencies are working together to varied standards and laws in each state
coordinate their efforts and develop as compared with the Federal system, as
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic short- and long-term agendas to make well as to the lack of interoperable data
applications to: http://www.grants.gov. food safer. As the Federal regulatory systems and legal impediments to
For more information, see section III of Agency responsible for most of the sharing data among partners.
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section nation’s food supply,1 FDA is These combined factors present a
of this notice. committed to ensuring that the food 2 challenge in managing and responding
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: supply is among the safest in the world. to signals of public health concern in
Nicola Areshenko, Food and Drug This requires a systematic, integrated the food supply. The currently
Administration, Office of Regulatory approach to effective risk control and decentralized U.S. public health and
Affairs, 253–987–7921, email: enforcement strategies. Together with agriculture system results in a situation
Nicola.areshenko@fda.hhs.gov; or Dan our Federal, State, local, tribal, and in which responsibility for surveillance,
Lukash, Grants Management Specialist, territorial public health partners, FDA is detection, investigation, response, and
Food and Drug Administration, Office of working to plan and implement an recovery to foodborne disease outbreaks
Acquisitions & Grant Services, 240– inspection and enforcement program to is shared across Federal, State,
402–7596, daniel.lukash@fda.hhs.gov. ensure high rates of compliance with territorial, tribal, and local government
For more information on this funding the Agency’s food safety standards. FDA agencies.
opportunity announcement (FOA) and intends to establish a fully integrated Various levels of government are
to obtain detailed requirements, please national food safety system built on working to improve the nation’s food
refer to the full FOA located at http:// collaboration among all of these safety and defense system. At all levels,
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide (select the partners. This system will encompass there is a call for greater integration and
‘‘Request for Applications’’ link), http:// coordination between the Federal
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1 FDA is the Federal Agency that is responsible
www.grants.gov (see ‘‘For Applicants’’ agencies and the regulatory and public
for regulating most of the country’s food supply,
section), and http://www.grants.gov/ with the exception of most meat, poultry, and health partners involved in food safety.
web/grants/search- processed egg products, which are overseen by the An integrated food safety system will
grants.html?keywords=rfa-fd-15-024. USDA. allow FDA to meet the President’s Food
2 For purposes of this document, the term ‘‘food’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Safety Working Group recommendation
includes human food, animal feed, components (i.e.
ingredients) of both food and feed, and dietary
that the Federal government ‘‘. . .
I. Funding Opportunity Description prioritize crucial inspection and
supplements for humans, except as otherwise
RFA–FD–15–021 noted. enforcement activity across the world,
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support safety efforts by States, Working Group Objectives to integrate applicants/organization_
localities, and businesses at home; and the food safety system at all levels. registration.jsp. Step 6, in detail, can be
utilize data to guide these efforts and found at https://commons.era.nih.gov/
C. Eligibility Information
evaluate their outcomes.’’ 3 commons/registration/
To be fully successful, the national The following organizations/ registrationInstructions.jsp. After you
food safety system must be built with institutions are eligible to apply: have followed these steps, submit
continuous input from FDA’s regulatory This cooperative agreement is only electronic applications to: http://
and public health partners. Efforts shall available to organizations receiving www.grants.gov.
facilitate information sharing and funding under the current Integrated
communication among all partners, and Food Safety System Online Dated: May 21, 2015.
include infrastructure for a national Collaboration Development cooperative Leslie Kux,
electronic information-sharing agreement. Competition is limited to Associate Commissioner for Policy.
mechanism. These actions will result in NCFPD because it is uniquely qualified [FR Doc. 2015–12853 Filed 5–27–15; 8:45 am]
a national food safety system that and has expertise and capacity found BILLING CODE 4164–01–P
identifies sources of risk throughout the nowhere else. It is the host/creator of
system and reduces time to detect and FoodSHIELD, an intergovernmental
respond to foodborne outbreaks. A collaborative project supporting DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
public health-driven, collaborative, and information sharing at the federal, state HUMAN SERVICES
leveraged approach to food safety and local levels. NCFPD is uniquely
activities and responsibilities will be qualified to provide: Well-established National Institutes of Health
reflected in improved public sector and high-level access to Food/
resource utilization at a national level, Agriculture Sector Organizations and National Institute on Aging; Notice of
which provides additional capacity for coordination of electronic collaborative Closed Meeting
ensuring a safe and secure food supply. tools; collaborative support from HHS,
DHS, and the USDA. NCFPD also has Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
B. Research Objectives past experience directly supporting the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
The Office of Regulatory Affairs, in President’s Food Safety Working Group amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is
coordination with FDA’s Office of Objectives to integrate the food safety hereby given of the following meeting.
Foods, Center for Food Safety and system at all levels. The meeting will be closed to the
Applied Nutrition, and Center for public in accordance with the
Veterinary Medicine, is soliciting a II. Award Information/Funds Available
provisions set forth in sections
cooperative grant proposal to expedite A. Award Amount 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
program development to support critical One award up to $680,000 for fiscal as amended. The grant applications and
federal-state collaboration necessary to year 2015 with up to an additional 4 the discussions could disclose
plan and implement an integrated food years funding up to $680,000 per year. confidential trade secrets or commercial
safety system. The intent is to fund property such as patentable material,
proposals for the continued B. Length of Support
and personal information concerning
development and operations of Up to 5 years. individuals associated with the grant
collaborative online tools involving a applications, the disclosure of which
range of stakeholders for the purposes III. Electronic Application,
Registration, and Submission would constitute a clearly unwarranted
of: (1) Information sharing in the invasion of personal privacy.
development of an integrated food Only electronic applications will be
safety system and (2) developing and accepted. To submit an electronic Name of Committee: National Institute on
implementing a sustainable model for application in response to this FOA, Aging Special Emphasis Panel; Financial and
continued collaborative communication applicants should first review the full Health Models.
and information sharing. This grant announcement located at http:// Date: June 22, 2015.
opportunity is limited to organizations grants.nih.gov/grants/guide. (FDA has Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
receiving funding under the current verified the Web site addresses Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
Integrated Food Safety System Online applications.
throughout this document but FDA is
Collaboration Development cooperative Place: National Institute on Aging,
not responsible for any subsequent
agreement. The NCFPD, a DHS Center of Gateway Building, Suite 2C212, 7201
changes to the Web sites after this
Excellence, has unique expertise and Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20892,
document publishes in the Federal
capacity found nowhere else. It is the (Telephone Conference Call).
Register.) For all electronically
Contact Person: Kimberly Firth, Ph.D.,
host/creator of FoodSHIELD, an inter- submitted applications, the following
National Institutes of Health, National
governmental collaborative project steps are required. Institute on Aging, Gateway Building, 7201
supporting information sharing at the • Step 1: Obtain a Dun and Bradstreet
Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2C212, Bethesda,
Federal, State, and local levels. NCFPD (DUNS) Number
MD 20892, 301–402–7702, firthkm@
is uniquely qualified to provide: Well- • Step 2: Register With System for
mail.nih.gov.
established and high-level access to Award Management (SAM)
Food/Agriculture Sector Organizations • Step 3: Obtain Username & (Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
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and coordination of electronic Password Program Nos. 93.866, Aging Research,
collaborative tools; collaborative • Step 4: Authorized Organization National Institutes of Health, HHS)
support from HHS, DHS, and the USDA. Representative (AOR) Authorization Dated: May 21, 2015.
NCFPD also has past experience directly • Step 5: Track AOR Status
Melanie J. Gray,
supporting the President’s Food Safety • Step 6: Register With Electronic
Research Administration (eRA) Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Commons Committee Policy.
3 President’s Food Safety Working Group Key
Steps 1 through 5, in detail, can be [FR Doc. 2015–12797 Filed 5–27–15; 8:45 am]
Findings Report submitted to President Obama on
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| Contact | Nicola Areshenko, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Regulatory Affairs, 253-987-7921, email: [email protected]; or Dan Lukash, Grants Management Specialist, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions & Grant Services, 240-402-7596, [email protected] | |
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