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Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements & Innovation

Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, & Innovation

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 Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation (also referred to as the Chemical Safety Office) supports this mission by ensuring exposure to chemicals in food is safe.

The Chemical Safety Office uses a risk-based approach to food chemical safety and dietary supplement policy and coordinates on regulatory and scientific issues for foods made through innovative technologies.

This Office comprises:

  • Office of Pre-Market and Additive Safety
  • Office of Post-Market Assessment
  • Office of Dietary Supplement Programs
  • Innovative Foods Staff
  • Operations Staff

What We Do

  • Ensure that Office functions and program activities are aligned with the overall strategy and priorities of the Human Foods Program and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
  • Provide food chemical safety scientific expertise, regulatory advice, technical assistance, and direction on laboratory and consumer education research.
  • Lead scientific, policy, risk management, and regulatory review of food chemical programs: 
    • Food ingredient and food contact substances programs, including food additive and color additive petitions, food contact notifications, generally recognized as safe or GRAS notifications, Threshold of Regulation Exemption requests, and recycling program notifications. This also includes other post-market assessments of chemicals in the food supply; an
    • Program and policy direction to prevent, monitor, and mitigate chemical contaminants and within our role, oversee levels of pesticides, that occur in foods either because of the processing or growing environment.
  • Lead scientific, policy, risk management and regulatory review of finished dietary supplement products and dietary ingredients.
    • Dietary supplement policy direction and programs, including dietary supplement labeling requirements, manufacturing requirements (such as the current good manufacturing practices) and new dietary ingredient (NDI) notification review.
    • Responsible for the direction and coordination on regulatory and scientific issues regarding foods derived through innovative technologies, such as cellular agriculture and plant biotechnology.

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