# North Dakota Cooperative Agreement to Enhance Produce Safety in Preparation of Implementation of FDA's Rule: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, & Holding of Produce for Human Consumption

> **NIH FDA U2F** · NORTH DAKOTA STATE DEPART OF AGRICULTURE · 2022 · $1,540

## Abstract

North Dakota Project Summary Project Period 2021-2026
Mission
 • To provide outreach and education about the FSMA Produce Safety Rule to produce growers in
 the state through education and one-on-one technical assistance.
Vision:
 • Support current and new produce growers in our state by providing them with information so
 they can make well-informed business decisions.
Program Objectives
 • Objective 1: Program Documentation
 o Overall Plans: The overall goal of this objective is to take the processes that were
 written in the previous CAP and organize them to provide long term success for the
 program and allow those running the program to be successful.
 • Objective 2: Program Administration
 o Overall Plans: The NDDA is committed to providing education to staff to help them
 perform their job duties well. A well-educated staff will help achieve the overall vision
 for the program.
 • Objective 3: Education, Outreach and Technical Assistance
 o Overall Plans: To provide FREE education and outreach to produce growers in ND.
 Trainings will be during months when they are not working in the fields. Every year the
 NDDA hosts a local foods conference. This is a place where smaller producers (that sell
 on average less than $25,000 in produce) come to learn. Having a grower training in
 conjunction with that conference provides an opportunity for those micro-exempt
 growers to be trained on the FSMA Produce Safety Rule.
 • Objective 4: Farm Inventory
 o Overall Plans: Collect and maintain produce farm inventory information that will be
 provided to the FDA on an as-needed basis. Utilize that information to better
 understand where outreach and education is needed across the state.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10439705
- **Project number:** 5U2FFD007423-02
- **Recipient organization:** NORTH DAKOTA STATE DEPART OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Angela M Oberg
- **Activity code:** U2F (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,540
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10439705

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10439705, North Dakota Cooperative Agreement to Enhance Produce Safety in Preparation of Implementation of FDA's Rule: Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, & Holding of Produce for Human Consumption (5U2FFD007423-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10439705. Licensed CC0.

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