- Meeting Date:
- 09/02/2025
- Title:
- NEHA-FDA Model Grant Program
- Submitted By:
- Sasha Moreno, Health & Social Services
- Department:
- Health & Social Services
Submitted for Signature:
of PRESENTER:
of PRESENTER:
or Basis for Support?:
Information
Agenda Item Text:
Approve Grant G-202411-06263 from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Program for work on Standards 2,3,4,9 and training, with the Cochise Health & Social Services Environmental Health Division, in the amount of $21,500, effective April 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026.
Background:
The training grant will support sending two Environmental Health Staff to attend the National Environmental Health Association AEC Conference in Phoenix, AZ and two Environmental Health Staff to the NEHA/FDA/WEHA Conference in Lacrosse, WI.
The development grant will support the Environmental Health division’s work to meet FDA Standard 2 Trained Regulatory Staff with the desired outcome that staff are trained with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct quality inspections.
The development grant will support the Environmental Health division’s work to meet FDA Standard 4 Uniform Inspection program. Environmental Health will work towards creating a quality assurance program that will develop written procedures for performing food service and retail food inspections, develop a monitoring system for reviewing inspections, and determine corrective actions to take whenever quality and consistency problems are identified.
The development grant will support the Environmental Health division’s work to meet FDA Standard 3 Inspections based on HACCP Principals. An inspection program that focuses on the status of Risk Factors, determines, and documents compliance, and targets immediate- and long-term correction of out-of-control Risk Factors through Active Managerial Control.
The grant will aid the Environmental Health division to continue developing our risk factor study, continue inspections specific to the risk factor study, developing a study design using both collected and observational data, conduct analysis of the information, and with an outcome of creating a report that outlines intervention strategies specific to Cochise County’s needs. This grant will help Environmental Health work towards meeting FDA Standard 9- Program Assessment.