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Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition Division of Food Safety

Fiscal Year 2018 Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP)

Introduction

• In 2011, FSMA was signed into legislation.
• NIFA and FDA - National Food Safety Training, Education,

Extension, Outreach, and Technical Assistance: Regional Centers to Enhance Food Safety program was established in FY 2015.

Introduction

USDA NIFA will compliment and expand the existing NCC and Regional Center structure with the Food Safety Outreach Program

Federal Partnership

• FY 2015- USDA-NIFA

FA and FDA-CFSAN partnership

• Established a national coordination center (NCC) and

4 regional centers (RC’s) to extend Food Safety Education to targeted communities

• Small and medium sized farms, beginning farmers,

socially disadvantaged farmers, small processors, or small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers.

USDA NIFA FDA CFSAN

FSMA Implementation Partnership

National Infrastructure

• International Food

Protection Training Institute

National Coordination Center

• Oregon State University
• University of Florida

Western and Southern Regional Centers

• Iowa State University
• University of Vermont &

State Agricultural College

Northcentral and Northeastern Regional Centers

Purpose

• Provide customized food safety education to specific audiences affected by the

guidelines established under FSMA, specifically

• Small and mid-sized farms
• Beginning farmers
• Socially disadvantaged farmers
• Small processors
• Small fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers

Program Highlights

• Application Deadline – June 7, 2018 @ 5pm ET
• All applications must be submitted in grants.gov
• Eligible Applicants
• The Cooperative Extension Service for a U.S. state or territory
• Non-government organizations and or community based organizations
• Federal, State, local, or tribal agencies
• An institution of higher education
• A collaboration of two or more eligible entities

2018 Plan

Pilot Projects at $25,000-$75,000 each Community Outreach Projects at $80,000-$150,000 each Regional Center Projects at $800,000 each, eligible for $200K Supplemental

USDA NIFA has proposed a budget of $6.6 million dollars to create;

• Pilot Projects
• Community Outreach

Projects

• Regional Center Projects

Pilot Projects

• Build the capacity of local groups to identify very specific needs (language or

cultural barriers) within their communities;

• Implement appropriately-customized food safety education and outreach

programs; and

• Target groups must be non-traditional niche or hard-to-reach audiences.

$25,000-$50,000 each (Project Narrative – 10 pages) Project Timeline – 1 Year

Community Outreach Projects

• Expand existing food safety education and outreach programs currently
• ffered in local communities.
• Enable existing programs to reach a broader target audience or to target new

local groups.

$80,000-$150,000 each (Project Narrative – 10 pages) Project Timeline – 2 years

Regional Center Projects

• Maintain the infrastructure of the program by coordinating across their region
• Expand upon the implementation of FSMA-related training, education, and technical assistance

to the target audience.

• Encourage education and training for a cadre of regional FSMA trainers
• Focus on an implementation plan for extending technical assistance to farmers, processors and

vendors in the respective regions

• Provide ongoing trainings for both growers and processors

Projects at $800,000 each; an additional $200,000 is available to award one Lead Regional Center project (Project Narrative – 20 pages) Project Timeline – 3 Years

Evaluation Criterion Pilot Projects

Objectives

• Justify specific FS

Ed needs w/i local communities

• FS Ed for small,

non-traditional, niche, or hard-to- reach audiences - cultural or language barriers

Methods

• Developing or modifying

FS curricula consistent w/ FSMA

• Identifying, developing

and modifying FS Ed and training for targeted audiences

• Developing a

communications plan for

communicating w/ Regional Centers

Key Personnel and Project Management

• Roles and responsibilities
• f key staff
• Well developed timeline
• Reporting and project
• utcomes staff
• Local community

coordination and collaboration

Budget and Budget Justification

• Adequately supports project

activities consistent with proposed objectives

• Innovative approaches for

utilizing currently available resources w/i local communities

• Allocate and justify resources to

key personnel for managing and conducting project activities.

Evaluation Criterion Community Outreach Projects

Objectives

• High impact FS Ed

consistent w/ FSMA

• Growth and

expansion of already existing FS Ed. Programs

• Leverage

partnerships with CBOs and NGOs.

Methods

• Developing and

expanding FS curricula consistent w/ FSMA to reach new audiences or expand current audience

• Developing a

communications plan for

communicating

• utcomes and impacts w/

Regional Centers

Key Personnel and Project Management

• Roles and responsibilities
• f key staff
• Well developed timeline
• Reporting and project
• utcomes staff
• Local community

coordination and collaboration

Budget and Budget Justification

• Adequately supports project

activities consistent with proposed objectives

• Innovative approaches for

utilizing currently available resources w/i local communities

• Allocate and justify resources to

key personnel for managing and conducting project activities.

Evaluation Criterion Regional Center Projects

Objectives

• Development of regional FS

Ed and outreach programs consistent w/ FSMA

• Implement a plan to

communicate, coordinate and assess projects within their regions

• Collaborations among states

sharing common FS concerns, commodities, and/or production/processing practices

• Leverage partnerships with

CBOs and NGOs.

Methods

• Building and maintaining

collaborations between states wihin the same regions.

• Developing a

communications plan for communicating outcomes and impacts and interacting w/ Pilot, Community Outreach and Regional Centers

• Lead RCC will collate
• utcomes from all RCC’s

Key Personnel and Project Management

• Roles and responsibilities
• f key staff
• Well developed timeline
• Reporting and project
• utcomes staff
• Local community

coordination and collaboration

Budget and Budget Justification

• Adequately supports project

activities consistent with proposed objectives

• Innovative approaches for

utilizing currently available resources w/i local communities

• Allocate and justify resources

to key personnel for managing and conducting project activities.

How will we coordinate our ongoing efforts?

INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION

• Between FY2015-FY2018 - Federal teams will monitor ongoing engagement among the FSOP projects

and Regional Centers on:

• Curricula Implementation- FSMA compliant curricula
• Teaching Approaches-Compile teaching methods/approaches
• Assessments-Capture sustainable impacts and/or outcomes

Matching Requirement

• Land-grant Institutions
• HSACU
• NLGCA
• Alaska Native-Serving and Native

Hawaiian-Serving Institutions

• Exempted entities are not required to

submit a request for exemption

Exemptions

********More exhaustive list can be found in the RFA***************

Matching Requirement

• Justification for waiver must be submitted

in the “Budget Narrative” of the proposal.

If you meet the justification for a waiver…….. ……..you must apply for a waiver

Panel Selection and Panel Review Process

Competitive Peer Review Process

• Designed to be scholarly & fair:

 Review by peers & other experts  Provide written & verbal evaluations

• Understand the review process for your specific program to prepare a

competitive proposal  Program-dependent evaluation factors are critical to the success of an application

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Panel Member Selection

• Active in Food Safety Research, Education or Extension
• Balanced to represent breadth of proposals and applicants:
• Discipline
• Geography
• Institution Size and Type
• Professional Rank
• Gender & Ethnicity

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Role of Panelists

• Review up to 10 proposals; # depends on program
• Provide constructive & fair evaluation
• Protect confidentiality
• Avoid Conflict of Interest

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Reviewer Evaluation of Proposals

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Before Panel Meeting

• Use evaluation criteria – to independently assess proposals
• Address strengths and weaknesses
• Make suggestions for improvement

Review Panel Meeting

During panel meeting

• Primary reviewer summarizes proposal and provides

critique

• Secondary and tertiary reviewers provide evaluation and

critique in order

• Ratings available to all panelists (except those with COI)

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Review Panel Meeting

• Interactive Panel discussion
• Panel consensus and ranking
• Outstanding
• High Priority
• Medium Priority
• Low Priority
• Do Not Fund
• Triage
• Prepare panel summary

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Preparation of the Panel Summary

• POSITIVE Aspects
• NEGATIVE Aspects
• SYNTHESIS

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• Phone Call – about 2 weeks after panel
• Return of:

– reviews – panel summary – relative ranking (categorical ranking)

• Complete award paperwork

Post-panel: Recommended Awards

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USDA NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program Team

Jodi Williams, PhD jwilliams@nifa.usda.gov Dawanna James-Holly, PhD dholly@nifa.usda.gov Melvin Carter, PhD Melvin.Carter@nifa.usda.gov https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/food-safety-outreach-program