Retail Food Safety Association Collaboration (U18) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to collaboratively advance retail food initiatives to reduce foodborne illness through a cooperative agreement. This opportunity is only available to national organizations/associations that represent state and local retail food regulatory programs as a primary purpose. The association must have the membership, resources, structure, and expertise necessary to build national consensus amongst state and local agencies on key food safety issues. The intended outcome of this cooperative agreement is to advance practices in retail food protection and identify opportunities for collaboration to reduce the occurrence of foodborne illness risk factors. • The association must have knowledge on the infrastructure, capacity, strengths, and needs of SLTT regulatory programs. • The association must have successful experience in carrying out national efforts to build an integrated food safety system, which includes Federal, State, and local agencies. • The association must be comprised of regular members that are officials of State and Local regulatory agencies that administer retail foods inspection programs in conjunction and in collaboration with FDA.