Center for Produce Safety RFP
The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) with the collaboration of public agencies and private industry awards more than $2 million to address critical risk management issues in the growth, harvest, processing and distribution of fresh produce.
All qualified research professionals are eligible to apply for CPS funding.
Proposals should be submitted by July 1, 2009 through the CPS Grant System
Web site at https://ucanr.org/cpsgrants/.
The Center for Produce Safety at UC Davis (CPS) today announced a request for research proposals (RFP) to address both general and commodity-specific research questions related to freshproduce safety.
The new RFP -CPS's largest to date- is the product of collaboration among public agencies and private industry to streamline research questions and maximize the impact of individual research budgets.
Both the scope of the RFP and the robust budget of $2 million reflect CPS's ongoing mission to leverage public and private expertise and research dollars to address critical risk management issues in the growth, harvest, processing and distribution of fresh produce.
Based on enthusiastic response to its recent "Partners in Research" RFP,
CPS identified industry partners with overlapping research needs and
offered them the opportunity to collectively match funds provided by the
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) - Specialty Crop
Block Grant and the University of California Agricultural and Natural
Resources (UC-ANR).
The RFP seeks to fund research projects that address critical safety
questions affecting the fresh produce industry generally, while at the
same time asking researchers to study knowledge gaps specific to
commodities that have been associated with illness outbreaks over the past
48 months, including tomatoes, melons and pistachios.
Download the RFP pdf here:
Contact Person: Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, Executive Director, CPS
Phone: (530) 757-5777
FFHI Faculty member, Bill Ristenpart