# Flexible Funding Model - Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (U18)

> **NIH FDA U18** · COLORADO STATE DEPT/PUB HLTH & ENVIRONMT · 2022 · $224,474

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
For
Colorado’s Manufactured Foods Program Flexible Funding Model – Maintenance for
 State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs
It is the intent of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Division
of Environmental Health and Sustainability (CDPHE-DEHS) to use this opportunity to
manage and maintain conformance with the Manufactured Food Regulatory Program
Standards by implementing the policies, procedures and protocols used by our
Manufactured Foods Program staff when inspecting and regulating the manufactured
foods industry in Colorado. Our goal is to ensure that staff working within the program
is well trained, knowledgeable and will consistently and uniformly apply that
knowledge to the situations encountered while inspecting and providing technical
guidance, education and outreach to the regulated community. In 2015, the
Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards (MFRPS) allowed the foundation to
be created and CDPHE was able to develop its own Manufactured Foods regulatory
inspection program. The requirement for states to be in full conformance with the
MFRPS as a condition of continued FDA contractual work and the need to apply these
same standards to the State program will require the dedication of significant
resources that are not currently available to Colorado’s program. We are moving
forward using the standards to strengthen and improve our program by methodically
eliminating the gaps and building a sound sustainable programmatic foundation.
Maintaining a solid program foundation will continue to help improve the program now
and provide guidance for the future.
The goal is to have the work conducted by Colorado’s program be recognized for its
quality and consistency related to inspections, laboratory analytical findings, industry
outreach and staff training. This will allow the agency to meet its goal of Safe Food
provided to Colorado residents and guests as well as to ensure that manufactured food
products that leave the state are safe. The agency is committed to help achieve FDA’s
goal of an integrated food safety system and ensure that Colorado’s inspections,
investigations, laboratory findings and program products are recognized as equivalent
to the work product of other states or the FDA that are using the MFRPS as the basis
for their programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10460176
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006410-05
- **Recipient organization:** COLORADO STATE DEPT/PUB HLTH & ENVIRONMT
- **Principal Investigator:** Justin Nathaniel Trubee
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $224,474
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10460176

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10460176, Flexible Funding Model - Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (U18) (5U18FD006410-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10460176. Licensed CC0.

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