Kentucky's Application for MFRPS, Dietary Supplements, Food Protection Task Force, and Special Projects

Kentucky Department for Public Health-Division of Public Health Protection & Safety Food Safety Branch Project Summary/Abstract RE: Flexible Funding Model-Infrastructure Development and Maintenance for State Manufactured Food Regulatory Programs (U2F) Clinical Trials Not Allowed (Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number RFA-FD-23-027).

The goal of this project over the 2023-2026 three-year Period of Performance is to maintain our agency’s full conformance with each of the 10 Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards by continuing to actively participate and advance state/federal efforts for a nationally integrated food protection system. Previous Cooperative Funding Agreements since

2011 have allowed our agency to build and maintain a quality state program for the regulation of our manufactured food industry. In addition to MFRPS maintenance/conformance, this project will utilize Cooperative Agreement funding to expand our current regulatory foundation incorporating Dietary Supplements as part of our

Manufactured Foods Regulatory Program. In an effort to better prioritize and direct our regulatory activities at reducing foodborne illness outbreaks, our agency further intends to maintain and expand the framework and network relative to our Food Protection Task force. Funding under a Special Projects add-on will also

be utilized to enhance our current food manufacturing database to enable quicker access to inspectional information along with bidirectional data sharing. In order to enhance responsiveness in terms of reducing food safety risks and prevention of foodborne outbreaks, data sharing with our FDA partners will promote faster communication relative to violative

conditions observed during manufactured food firm inspections. Continuing our agency’s partnership with FDA under this Cooperative Agreement is essential for building a solid regulatory foundation, maintaining and sustaining consistency in our agency’s inspectional approach, supporting a framework aimed at reducing foodborne illness,

and contribute to projects which support and enhances an IFSS.