# Flexible Funding Model:  Washington State Department of Agriculture

> **NIH FDA U18** · WA STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE · 2020 · $535,000

## Abstract

Flexible Funding Model- Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State
Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (U18) RFA-FD-18-001
Project Summary
The objective of this multi-component project is to support a nationally integrated human and animal
food (HAF) safety system through the maintenance of the Manufactured Food Regulatory Program
Standards (MFRPS), Rapid Response Team (RRT), and the Washington Food Protection Task Force. The
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) plans to continue its conformance with current
and future versions of the MFRPS standards, RRT milestones/five-year plan, and Food Protection Task
Force best practices in order to actively enhance standardized and efficient HAF safety regulatory and
response activities.
In addition to maintaining the core regulatory and response foundations that have been established
through MFRPS and RRT, WSDA plans to continue its efforts to identify and strengthen integral
professional relationships between HAF safety partners including Federal, state, local, and tribal
stakeholders in the public health, agriculture, regulatory, laboratory, industry, academic, and emergency
response arenas.
Through this multi-modal approach, WSDA anticipates the ability to contribute to an integrated
food/feed safety system in a standardized and efficient manner to better protect the public health of
Washingtonians and the U.S. population as a whole.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9961379
- **Project number:** 5U18FD006419-03
- **Recipient organization:** WA STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
- **Principal Investigator:** Randy James Treadwell
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $535,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9961379

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9961379, Flexible Funding Model:  Washington State Department of Agriculture (5U18FD006419-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9961379. Licensed CC0.

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