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Office of Executive Programs

Office of Executive Programs

Ensuring that food is a vehicle for wellness is the vision of the FDA’s Human Foods Program (HFP). It is our mission to protect and promote the health and wellness of people through science-based approaches to prevent foodborne illness, reduce diet-related chronic disease and ensure chemicals in food are safe.

The Office of Executive Programs (OEP) supports this mission providing executive leadership and coordination of significant, emerging sensitive, or cross-cutting issues to ensure strategic and timely actions on major policy and legislative issues for the HFP, including FDA’s inspections and investigation programs.

This office comprises:

  • Project and Portfolio Management Staff 1
  • Project and Portfolio Management Staff 2
  • Legislative and Program Issue Coordination and Executive Correspondence Staff.

What We Do

  • Provide executive leadership and coordination of significant, emerging, sensitive, or cross-cutting issues to ensure strategic and timely actions on major policy and legislative issues for the HFP, including FDA’s inspections and investigations program.
  • Manage high priority, strategically aligned projects for the Human Foods Program (HFP), including the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) inspections and investigations program and maintains and monitors project schedules. Analyses of the project portfolio, considering factors such as scope, risk, and resource needs. Offer guidance and recommends solutions to senior leadership regarding project prioritization and based on availability of resources and project risks.
  • Coordinate and manage the flow of documents, communications, correspondence and other materials from Congress, industry, consumer groups and the public, for the HFP, including FDA’s inspection and investigations program activities.

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