2.2: Food and Product Safety
Improve the safety of food, drugs, biological products, and medical devices Other Information:
How We Will Accomplish Our Objective: Provide high quality, cost-effective oversight of industry manufacturing, processing,
and distribution to reduce risk: - Use science-based risk management in all regulatory activities, so that limited resources
can provide the most health promotion and protection at the least cost to the public. - Apply the most current scientific
knowledge about risk management and quality assurance to FDA’s requirements, including current Good Manufacturing Practice
(GMP) inspection, compliance, and enforcement activities. - Develop new inspection approaches to more effectively utilize
new and existing resources. - Implement an efficient, risk-based system to promote the wide availability of safe FDA-regulated
imports by: increasing the standards and improving the practices of source countries and at points of entry into US commerce;
improving detection of noncompliant products; and developing standards and procedures to maximize the cost-effectiveness of
Agency oversight. Assure the safety of the US food supply to protect consumers at the least cost for the public: - Develop
and use new scientific knowledge and use public health systems to quickly and accurately identify food safety hazards so that
disease risks can be properly managed. - Identify appropriate prevention standards, and apply appropriate preventive controls
and inspection and monitoring systems to assure food safety for all Americans. - Measure results regarding health outcomes
to verify that food borne illness and injury is being reduced. - Consider risk information in deciding how to manage food
imports, whether by working with foreign countries and manufacturers to improve compliance with safe manufacturing abroad
as an alternative to detailed inspections at the border, or by using better information on imports to focus border checks
of final products that present significant potential risks, or by collaborating with domestic producers to improve checks
on the safety of the ingredients they use. Develop methodological strategies and analyses to evaluate options, identify
the most effective and efficient risk management strategies, and optimize regulatory decision-making. - Develop and evaluate
strategies using scientific data to optimize pre-market and post-market regulatory decisions. - Develop timely, first-rate
integrated risk assessment and economic analysis to identify risk management options for policy makers.
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