# Local Food Safety Collaborative

> **NIH FDA U01** · NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION · 2024 · $1,000,000

## Abstract

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Title: Local Food Safety Collaborative
PD: McCarthy, William (Billy) Institution: National Farmers Union Foundation
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National Farmers Union Foundation’s (NFUF) project, the Local Food Safety Collaborative
(LFSC), is dedicated to helping local farmers and processors advance their food safety
knowledge and capacity in order to increase compliance, enhance the economic viability of their
operations, and enable them to continue providing consumers with safe, healthy local food.
Building on previous work, LFSC will help local food producer audiences interpret, understand,
and implement Federal food safety regulations and guidance and address challenges to the
implementation of food safety best practices in their operations. Project approach will
encompasses education and training as well as direct assistance that is scale and culturally
appropriate; a particular emphasis will be placed on providing opportunities for peer-to-peer
learning and experiential education. LFSC will work with project partners and producers
themselves to identify needs and develop resources with an emphasis on creating materials in a
variety of media formats that mitigate cultural and learning barriers to knowledge acquisition
and practice. LFSC will continue to collaborate with community-based organizations with
established relationships of trust as well as an understanding of the target audience in their
respective communities. Project methods include:
Collaboration – Facilitate collaboration among relevant community-based farm and food
organizations, academic, and regulatory stakeholders.
Outreach – Conduct outreach to target audience producers to facilitate awareness of food safety
compliance, promote educational opportunities, and disseminate food safety resources.
Education and Training – Deliver food safety education and training that meets target audience
producers where they are.
Resource Development – Develop food safety resources tailored to the needs of the target
audience that reduce barriers to learning and reflect their operations.
Technical Assistance – Provide individualized training and support to target a...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11193761
- **Project number:** 5U01FD006921-05
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION
- **Principal Investigator:** William McCarthy
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,000,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-15 → 2027-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11193761

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11193761, Local Food Safety Collaborative (5U01FD006921-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11193761. Licensed CC0.

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