# AFRPS Maintenance

> **NIH FDA U18** · PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE · 2021 · $75,262

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry promotes feed and food
safety through compliance education, enforcement of rules and regulations, investigation of
feed-related complaints, routine sampling of animal feeds and routine inspection of feed
facilities.
Based on the Department’s Bureau of Plant Industry’s AFRPS Maintenance track, the feed
program needs for the cooperative agreement include:
 1. Continue to evaluate the Feed Program’s legal authority to ensure the protection
 of the health of man and animals. Evaluate the possibility of updating the Commercial
 Feed Act.
 2. Maintain and enhance the inspector training course curriculum, supporting the AFRPS
 requirements and the needs of our risk-based inspection program to ensure the
 knowledge, skills and abilities of feed inspection staff.
 3. Maintain and enhance our Esri ArcGIS based Survey 123 to update a risk-
 based inspection workplan and adequate inspection and investigation protocol.
 4. Maintain a means to evaluate our feed inspection training competencies, for both field
 and inspection report procedures, to verify the effectiveness of our training curriculum.
 5. Maintain a means to communicate with other agencies and a way to
 disseminate information in times of feed-related emergencies and cross-sector events.
 6. Maintain written policies and procedures that outline our Feed Program’s enforcement
 strategies. Update as necessary.
 7. Create and launch statewide educational outreach about feed topics which incorporates
 training activities and open communication between regulators, industry, academia and
 the consumer.
 8. Maintain a means to evaluate the necessary resources to perform routine feed work
 in order to assure the Feed Program has adequate support to meet the goals of
 the workplan.
 9. Continue to evaluate the procedures for sample collection to ensure alignment
 with the Feed Program’s priorities.
 10. Ensure the alignment of the laboratory procedures with the Association of American
 Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Quality Assurance/Quality Control guidelines and meet
 the managerial and technical requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 in order to guarantee valid
 and defensible laboratory testing data to protect the health of man and animals.
 11. Maintain and operate a review system to ensure periodic assessment of the feed
 program per each Standard in order to implement necessary improvement.
The implementation and continuous improvement of the feed program and laboratory plans and
procedures through the AFRPS will assist both Pennsylvania and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to better direct regulatory activities toward preventing feed manufacturing
compliance issues and increasing food safety in the United States.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10254341
- **Project number:** 5U18FD007204-02
- **Recipient organization:** PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Erin Bubb
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $75,262
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10254341

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10254341, AFRPS Maintenance (5U18FD007204-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10254341. Licensed CC0.

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