# FSMA Human Foods Preventive Controls Implementation Expansion Supplement to RFA-FD-18-001

> **NIH FDA U18** · WISCONSIN DEPT/AGRI/TRADE/CONSUM/ PROT · 2020 · $145,081

## Abstract

To help pave the way to a more integrated food safety system (IFSS) in furtherance of public
health - and for the important sector of our economy in Wisconsin and nationwide that is
manufactured food - Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
(DATCP) is requesting funding to develop and support implementation of the Preventive
Controls for Human Food (PCHF) Rule in our state, and to more broadly attain the goals of the
PCHF's “parent” legislation FSMA.
In order to do so, Wisconsin has identified the need to enhance our information technology (IT)
infrastructure. While Wisconsin has other areas with PCHF Rule conformance enhancement
potential, our primary goals is to put in place a system that allows us to conduct and report about
inspections, PCHF inspections in particular, more efficiently, more timely, and with less
possibility of avoidable error. Based on experience, this will require better IT hardware and
software for use by Wisconsin's manufactured food staff. The improvements we can make using
such IT tools will allow us to do better workplanning and more transparent information sharing
with our partners at the FDA. Wisconsin has come to recognize that the matter of state
compatibility with the leading edge data platforms of the FDA would bolster better PCHF Rule
implementation in our state and tie it into other programmatic areas.
This recognition follows Wisconsin's work as one of the first states in the nation to pilot
submission of non-contract inspection (NCI) information to the FDA for some of our state
manufactured food facilities, and our similarly pioneering work helping to conduct user
acceptance testing on NCI data for the FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs Partners Portal.
Around the time of Wisconsin's assistance with these projects, DATCP staff also spoke with a
colleague in Florida whose state program has embraced the FDA's National Food Safety Data
Exchange (NFSDX) platform, and with personnel in the FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs.
Such conversations, when combined with our other efforts, have helped make us believers in
information technology solutions of the future and NFSDX in particular. Our proposed future-
minded solutions (such as better hardware, i.e., durable IT goods) would almost by definition be
sustainable beyond the end of the project period and thus help us carry our efforts into the future
both for our own benefit and for that of the FDA and its vision of an IFSS.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175799
- **Project number:** 3U18FD006394-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** WISCONSIN DEPT/AGRI/TRADE/CONSUM/ PROT
- **Principal Investigator:** Troy S Sprecker
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $145,081
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175799

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175799, FSMA Human Foods Preventive Controls Implementation Expansion Supplement to RFA-FD-18-001 (3U18FD006394-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175799. Licensed CC0.

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