# Flexible Funding Model Grant Application  Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development  February 2018

> **NIH FDA U18** · MICHIGAN STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $610,000

## Abstract

Project Summary – Abstract RFA-FD-18-001
The Flexible Funding Model - Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured
Food Regulatory Programs (FFM) 5 year grant opportunity focuses on the creation, development and
maintenance of long-term sustainable efforts at the state and local levels to improve capabilities in
human and animal food regulatory programs.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is the lead state agency
for both food and feed safety with authority to oversee all the segments of the farm-to-fork continuum.
The over-arching goal and vision in Michigan is to maintain a high quality regulatory food program
and continue to grow and enhance its multi-disciplinary, multi-divisional integrated capacity to
respond to food and feed issues within the agency, while improving the effective working relationships
with the FDA-Detroit Office, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan's 45
Local Health Departments, academia and industry stakeholders.
Through the FFM project, Michigan's manufactured food regulatory program standards (MFRPS)
program, Food Protection Task Force, and Rapid Response Team (RRT) program, along with special
projects opportunities would become more cohesive. The grant opportunity would allow Michigan to
improve its capabilities to help advance a national integrated food safety system by continuing to
build and maintain a transferable working model of food regulatory best practices along with the
implementation and integration of advanced rapid response capacities using the Incident Command
System (ICS) and the principles outlined in the RRT Best Practices Manual.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9961357
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006402-03
- **Recipient organization:** MICHIGAN STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** BRADLEY NIELSEN DEACON
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $610,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9961357

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9961357, Flexible Funding Model Grant Application  Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development  February 2018 (5U18FD006402-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9961357. Licensed CC0.

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