# Alaska FSS Advancing Conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (VNRFRPS)

> **NIH FDA U18** · ALASKA STATE DEPT/ENVIRONMTL CONSERVATN · 2020 · $70,000

## Abstract

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The overall objective of this project is to bring the Alaska Food Safety and Sanitation
Program into significant conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food
Regulatory Program Standards (VNFRPS), a critical element to the development of a
national, fully integrated food safety system. Conformance with the VNRFRPS will
ensure that the Program develops and maintains evidence-based best practices that will
serve to improve and enhance our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to foodborne
illnesses.
The incremental steps towards conformance include further customization and
development work on an information management system (IMS) designed specifically
for food regulatory programs. The program intends to use inspection data to assess the
occurrence of risk factor violations and the impact of intervention strategies, integrating
risk factor data collection and analysis into the routine operations of the program.
During the project period, significant effort will also be expended towards the
standardization, re-standardization and field assessment of inspection staff, in order to
promote and enhance uniformity and increase credibility with industry.
Alaska has developed a strategic plan to continuously improve program areas that do
not meet a particular standard, with the intention that significant conformance will be
achieved by the end of the cooperative agreement period. Self-assessments and
verification audits will be done where appropriate to demonstrate conformance.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10147411
- **Project number:** 1U18FD007027-01
- **Recipient organization:** ALASKA STATE DEPT/ENVIRONMTL CONSERVATN
- **Principal Investigator:** Kimberly Stryker
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $70,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10147411

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10147411, Alaska FSS Advancing Conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (VNRFRPS) (1U18FD007027-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10147411. Licensed CC0.

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