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NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens

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The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement to enhance and sustain antibiotic resistance monitoring within the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System. The program focuses on improving the detection of antibiotic resistance in retail food specimens and expanding sampling to new sites to better protect and promote public health. This forecast opportunity, managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, seeks to align measurable outcomes with established NARMS objectives. The project falls under NAICS code 541714 and is designed to strengthen the overall scope of surveillance for bacteria in food commodities.

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FDA seeks partners to expand antimicrobial resistance surveillance in retail food samples nationwide.

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Department Of Health And Human Services → Food And Drug Administration

NAICS

541714 - Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)

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AgencyDepartment Of Health And Human Services → Food And Drug Administration

Contacts1 person available

OfficeUSA

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Department Of Health And Human Services → Food And Drug Administration

Office AddressUSA

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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), builds upon the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) which was initiated in 1996 as one of the key activities in a national action plan to combat antibiotic resistance threats. The purpose of this FOA is to protect and promote public health by enhancing, strengthening and sustaining antibiotic resistance monitoring in retail food specimens within the NARMS program. The NARMS cooperative agreements is intended to improve the detection of antibiotic resistance among bacteria in food commodities, as well as expand to new sites to expand the scope of sampling. Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with the NARMS Objectives.

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