Fats and Proteins Research Foundation - Request for Proposals 2014-2

The Fats and Proteins Research Foundation (FPRF) invites applications for research projects that address biosecurity, new use applications, their expanded use as feed ingredients and in particular industrial use applications for rendered animal protein and fat products. Deadline for submitting applications is September 15, 2014.

For the long term view, the research objectives for rendered by-products should be directed toward solving a significant problem, improving product safety/quality, chemical or biological modifications to increase value or nutritional studies to improve their utilization in animal diets. For the near term, FPRF has decided to focus work in aquaculture, swine, and poultry nutrition aiming directly at gaps in the current knowledge necessary for diet formulators, including critical work in nutritional characteristics of rendered products. Significant research funding will be dedicated to these nutrition studies. Any research institution can compete for these funds by submitting “at-large” proposals. In recent years, FPRF has funded approximately five at-large grants per year at a level of $ 45,000 each.

FPRF was organized in 1962 to serve the rendering and its associated industries. FPRF's purpose is to provide an institution which will direct and manage a research process that results in an enhanced current usage and the development of new uses for rendered animal products. Thus providing added value to all animal production.