# Expanding Minnesota's FSMA Human Foods Preventive Controls Implementation

> **NIH FDA U18** · MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $150,000

## Abstract

Project Abstract
The intended outcome of this program expansion to RFA-FD-18-001 “Flexible Funding Model –
Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory
Programs” is to advance the efforts for a nationally Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS) by
assisting State manufactured food regulatory programs to promote compliance with the Current
Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human
Food regulation (PCHF Rule). PCHF is intended to ensure safe manufacturing, processing,
packing and holding of food products for human consumption in the United States. This program
expansion provides funding to incorporate PCHF activities into the existing human food safety
framework being implemented by the grantees under RFA-FD-18-00.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) Food and Feed Safety Division (FFSD)
licenses and inspects approximately 10,000 food facilities including 2,000 manufactured and
wholesale food establishments in Minnesota. The MDA-FFSD has program responsibility for
both retail and manufactured foods, animal food/feed, and produce. The Manufactured Food
Program (MFP) within MDA-FFSD currently has a staff of 20 with 16 conducting field
inspections of food manufacturers/processors and food storage warehouses. The MDA-FFSD
also has multiple supporting units that include an additional 20 staff who fully or partially assist
the Manufactured Food Program in day-to-day operations including compliance and
enforcement, response and outreach, data management, training support, and electronic
systems maintenance. These staff also lead and coordinate updates to procedures and
processes including document management as well as achieving and maintaining conformance
with the MFRPS.
The MDA, as part of this application, will create a comprehensive Strategic Plan that outlines
the objectives and deliverables needed to incorporate PCHF implementation strategies into the
MFRPS, identify and fulfill training needs and auditing programs to advance inspections under
the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), build infrastructure and program improvement
based upon the PCHF rule, maintain regulatory authorities equivalent to PCHF and FSMA rules,
conduct outreach to promote compliance with FSMA regulations, and participate in joint
workplanning, enforcement, and information sharing.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174053
- **Project number:** 3U18FD006411-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Carrie Rigdon
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $150,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174053

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174053, Expanding Minnesota's FSMA Human Foods Preventive Controls Implementation (3U18FD006411-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174053. Licensed CC0.

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