The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its intention to receive and consider a cooperative agreement with the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), to support the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN).The purposes of this partnership is to:1) Continue promoting

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the integration of applied research, education, and outreach programs that have been established between UMD-JIFSAN and FDA to advance the scientific base for the development of sound public policy;2) Enhance FDA's ability to address an increasing number of critical and complex food safety and public health issues associated with foods that FDA regulates;3) Provide opportunities to leverage additional resources among US government agencies, academia, industry, and consumers to address new and emerging issues associated with an increasingly diverse domestic and global food supply;4) Continue to promote a greater awareness and understanding of the critical role of regulatory science and practice among academic scientists and the pool of future scientists; and5) Support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which emphasizes the concept of preventing food safety-related problems before they occur, and enhance FDA’s efforts to partner with other nations to improve US and worldwide health