# West Virginia Conformance with Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards

> **NIH FDA U18** · WEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPT HLTH/HUMAN RSCS · 2020 · $50,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
The West Virginia Conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory
Program Standards (VNRFRPS) project is designed to enhance West Virginia Bureau for
Public Health’s (WVBPH) conformance with the VNRFRPS. The WVBPH VNRFRPS
project includes updating polices, implementing outreach and education strategies for
industry, implementing an environmental assessment project in care facilities and
maintaining an environmental health electronic reporting system for food inspections. The
program plans to implement a project to conduct joint environmental health assessments
at care facilities that experience gastrointestinal outbreaks.
The state’s food protection program will be strengthened by increased capacity for
conducting environmental assessments. Facilities will be provided with educational
materials for ways to control respiratory illness in the facilities and proper protocol for ill
food workers. WVBPH plans to share materials developed with these projects with other
regulatory agencies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10150339
- **Project number:** 1U18FD007037-01
- **Recipient organization:** WEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPT HLTH/HUMAN RSCS
- **Principal Investigator:** Judy E Vallandingham
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $50,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10150339

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10150339, West Virginia Conformance with Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (1U18FD007037-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10150339. Licensed CC0.

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