Opportunity Information: Apply for PAR 21 174
The FDA's Cooperative Agreement Program for States and Territories to Implement a National Produce Safety Program (U2F) is a federal cooperative agreement designed to help state (and, in the broader program framing, territorial) food safety agencies build, strengthen, and sustain produce safety programs that support implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (21 CFR Part 112). The central public health purpose is to reduce serious illness and deaths linked to contaminated produce by improving how produce is grown, harvested, packed, and held, using nationally consistent, science-based standards. This opportunity continues and expands on FDA's earlier 2016 to 2021 partnership model (PAR-16-137), recognizing that FSMA depends on tight coordination across federal, state, and territorial partners rather than isolated enforcement efforts.
Under this program, each funded jurisdiction establishes and maintains a formal Produce Safety Program aimed at driving high compliance with the Produce Safety Rule while aligning approaches across the country. The program is structured around a set of standardized objectives intended to promote quality, consistency, and practical implementation capacity. While the full objective list is referenced as "Program Objectives," the funding notice makes clear that several foundational elements apply to every grantee regardless of regulatory posture: assessment and planning, program administration, education/outreach/technical assistance, and building or maintaining a farm inventory. These shared components reflect the idea that even where an agency is not conducting inspections, it still plays a major role in readiness, industry support, training, communication, and building the data and relationships needed for a functional produce safety system.
Applicants must select exactly one of three Program Path options, which primarily differ based on whether and how the jurisdiction conducts produce safety inspections. Path A is for non-regulatory jurisdictions that will not conduct Produce Safety Rule inspections. Path A recipients still carry significant responsibilities, including completing the objectives tied to planning and assessment, administrative program infrastructure, education and outreach, and farm inventory work (listed as Objectives 1 through 4). Path B is for jurisdictions that will conduct produce safety inspections under FDA authority, meaning the state operates inspectional activities through a federal framework; Path B grantees must complete both the foundational objectives and the additional inspection-related objectives (Objectives 1 through 7). Path C is for jurisdictions that will conduct produce safety inspections under their own authority, indicating the state has its own legal/regulatory authority to inspect for Produce Safety Rule compliance; Path C also requires completion of Objectives 1 through 7. In practice, the three paths let jurisdictions participate at a level consistent with their legal authority, staffing models, and program maturity, while still moving toward a coordinated national system.
The opportunity is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as a discretionary cooperative agreement (not a typical formula grant). The assistance listing is CFDA 93.103, and the funding activity category is listed under Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Food and Nutrition. Eligible applicants are state governments. The notice is explicitly marked "Clinical Trials Not Allowed," reflecting that the work is implementation and capacity-building for food safety systems rather than human-subjects clinical research.
From a funding and competition standpoint, the opportunity number is PAR 21-174 and it uses multiple due dates across several years, giving jurisdictions repeated chances to apply or re-compete as program needs evolve. The listed application deadlines were April 23, 2021; March 1, 2022; and March 1, 2023, each by 11:59 PM Eastern Time. The opportunity anticipates a relatively broad national footprint, with an expected 56 awards, which aligns with the goal of near-national coverage across states and relevant jurisdictions. The award ceiling is listed as $12,500,000, indicating that at least some awards could be large depending on scope, path selection, and negotiated cooperative agreement terms.
Overall, this cooperative agreement is about building an integrated, nationally consistent produce safety infrastructure by funding state-led programs that can plan, administer, educate, inventory farms, and where applicable, conduct inspections either under FDA authority or under the state's own authority. The emphasis is less on one-time projects and more on creating durable program capacity that improves produce safety outcomes and strengthens compliance with FSMA's Produce Safety Rule over time.Apply for PAR 21 174
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration in the agriculture, consumer protection, food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "The FDA's Cooperative Agreement Program for States and Territories to Implement a National Produce Safety Program (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.103.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 18, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 23, 2021 March 1, 2023. This FOA has multi-application due dates April 23, 2021, by 1159 PM Eastern Time March 1, 2022, by 1159 PM Eastern Time March 1, 2023, by 1159 PM Eastern Time. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $12,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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