Closed · RFA-FD-17-010 · CFDA 93.103 · Discretionary
Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation and Whole Genome Sequencing for State Food Testing Laboratories
Federal grant opportunity posted by Food and Drug Administration, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $300K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- April 18, 2018
- Close date
- 45
- Expected awards
The verdict
Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation and Whole Genome Sequencing for State Food Testing Laboratories is a closed discretionary listing from Food and Drug Administration that offered Up to $300,000 across 45 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 481 other opportunities from Food and Drug Administration.
- up to $300K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 45
- expected awards
- 93.103
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025… is closed (last close April 18, 2018). The parent program page for CFDA 93.103 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Food and Drug Administration still indexes 481 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed April 18, 2018
Est. Total Funding
$7,900,000
Expected Awards
45
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The intended outcome of this cooperative agreement is to advance the goal of a national food safety system by supporting and enhancing state food laboratory activities including:1) Ensuring microbiological and chemical food analyses performed on behalf of the State manufactured food regulatory programs are conducted within the scope of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 17025 accredited laboratory;2) Strengthening the collaboration between the laboratories and State manufactured food regulatory programs;3) Increasing the number of State samples collected and analyzed for surveillance purposes annually;4) Developing a stronger international rapid surveillance system for pathogen traceback through the GenomeTrackr network using a minimum set of metadata fields for all food and environmental isolates; and5) Providing additional support to the State food laboratories through an outside association to offer trainings, workshops, and educational resources to both awardees under this cooperative agreement and to unfunded laboratories seeking ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 3 doors
Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025… bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (3 doors: State governments; Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Agriculture · Consumer Protection · Food and Nutrition (AG;CP;FN). Inside Food and Drug Administration's indexed book this exact eligibility-code string is unique to this listing.
- Code 00
- State governments
- Code 06
- Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Code 20
- Private institutions of higher education
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Food and Drug Administration Research
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency Contact
Kiara Fowler Grants Specialist Phone 240-402-3099
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What to do next
Maintenance and Enhancement of ISO/IEC 17025… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 93.103 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
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