Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM)
Funds state, territorial and tribal food- and animal-testing laboratories to run sample testing and lab capacity work for FDA's food safety system.
When food turns out to be unsafe, the lab that catches it first is usually a state or territorial one, not FDA itself. This cooperative agreement pays for that layer directly — the laboratories that do the actual sample testing behind the country's food safety system.
The money supports four kinds of work: prioritised sample testing, food-defense preparedness, method development, and building up …
Cooperative agreement funding for public and private universities and for state, county, city, tribal and other government food- and animal-feed-testing laboratories, to run prioritised sample testing, food-defense preparedness, method development and capacity-building inside FDA's integrated food safety system.
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