How much can one applicant receive?

$360,000 – $1,440,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award ceiling is $1,440,000 and award floor is $360,000. Expected number of awards is 4.”.

Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is false, indicating no match requirement.

OtherForecastedForecastedFood and Drug Administration

Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Awards $360,000 – $1,440,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, other legal entity, others, public agency, special district governments, state governments, closing Forecasted — not yet open.

Official page

City or township governments County governments Other Legal Entity Others Public Agency Special district governments State governments Agriculture Consumer Protection Food and Nutrition

In one sentence

Development and Maintenance of Human and Animal Food Rapid Response Teams (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed awards $360,000 – $1,440,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, other legal entity, others, public agency, special district governments, state…

Record fields

Program pool (total): Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): $1,440,000
Award ceiling is $1,440,000 and award floor is $360,000. Expected number of awards is 4.
Award floor: $360,000
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Forecasted — not yet open
Deadline type: forecasted
Opens: Not stated
Status: Forecasted
Eligible entities: City or township governments · County governments · Other Legal Entity · Others · Public Agency · Special district governments · State governments
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: No
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Currency: USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle

Not stated

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

$1,440,000

Source wording: “Award ceiling is $1,440,000 and award floor is $360,000. Expected number of awards is 4.”

Who can apply?

entity

City or township governments, County governments, Other Legal Entity, Others, Public Agency, Special district governments, State governments

Source field: entity types

industry

Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Food and Nutrition

Source field: industries

use

Emergency response coordination, Epidemiology and laboratory improvements, Food safety system development, Regulatory and surveillance programs, Training and data sharing

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

Applicant eligibility listed as Governments and State Governments. Applicant types include County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, State governments, and Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Forecasted — not yet openforecasted deadline

Opportunity status is forecasted; no specific deadline date is provided.

What can the money be used for?

Food safety system developmentEmergency response coordinationEpidemiology and laboratory improvementsRegulatory and surveillance programsTraining and data sharing

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Matching funds: No
Cost sharing is false, indicating no match requirement.

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

How much can one applicant receive?: $360,000 – $1,440,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award ceiling is $1,440,000 and award floor is $360,000. Expected number of awards is 4.”.
Who is eligible to apply?: City or township governments, County governments, Other Legal Entity, Others, Public Agency, Special district governments, State governments.
What can the funding be used for?: Food safety system development, Emergency response coordination, Epidemiology and laboratory improvements, Regulatory and surveillance programs, Training and data sharing, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is false, indicating no match requirement.

Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-08-31

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-08-31

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.