China

The China Office is responsible for managing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) relationship and interactions with its regulatory counterparts in China. Staff are located both in China and in Rockville, Maryland. In November 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially opened its China Office, with locations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This landmark event represented a new era in U.S.-China cooperation on the safety of food, feed, and medical products. FDA's efforts will build stronger cooperative relationships with the FDA's counterpart agencies in China, enhance technical cooperation with these agencies, and foster development of greater, more timely, and more reliable information flow between FDA and its counterpart agencies in China. The permanent presence of FDA in China will allow greater access for FDA inspections and greater interactions between FDA staff and Chinese manufacturers to help assure that products shipped to the United States meet FDA standards for safety and manufacturing quality. FDA carries out work on the safety of food and feed with China’s General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and on the safety of medical products with China’s State Food and Drug Administration.

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