Office of Integrated Food Safety System Partnerships
Ensuring that food is a vehicle for wellness is the vision of the FDA’s Human Foods Program. 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 Integrated Food Safety System Partnerships (OIFSSP) supports this mission by strengthening our regulatory partners through collaborative public health programs and mutual reliance.
This office comprises:
- Office of Domestic Partnerships
- Office of Retail Food Protection
- Partnership Services Staff
What We Do
- Lead Human Foods Program (HFP) efforts in developing, establishing, and maintaining cooperative relationships of an Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS) among domestic and some international regulatory agencies, public health agencies and other external stakeholders to advance FDA HFP public health goals and objectives by efficient and effective use of partner resources.
- Advise and counsel HFP leadership on the implementation of human and animal food policies and programs in the development, coordination, and evaluation of partnerships with other federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial regulatory entities and some international partners to advance a fully integrated food safety system.
- Provide overall leadership and guidance in the development, coordination, and evaluation of human and animal food programs’ federal, state, local and territorial funding of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts.
- Develop, coordinate, implement, and/or evaluate domestic Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), Partnership Agreements, some international arrangements, and other non-binding agreements with key regulatory partners to advance a fully integrated food safety system.
- Facilitate the diagnosis and formulation of recommended solutions for adaptive challenges that impede progress in advancing an Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS) and facilitate the implementation of these solutions. This includes design, development, and implementation of adaptive “experiments,” innovative projects, and other initiatives to advance an IFSS through pilots to deliver efficiencies.
Food Safety Programs
- Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards (MFRPS)
- Cooperative Agreement Program
- Building an Integrated IT Infrastructure for State Regulatory Programs
- Partnership Agreements
- Human Food Contract and Animal Food Contract
- Rapid Response Teams
- Retail Flexible Funding Model CAP
- FDA-State Produce Safety Implementation CAP
- Produce Safety Association Cooperative Agreement Program
- Flexible Funding Model
- Laboratory Capacity Building
- Partnership for Food Protection
- Retail Food Protection
Contact Us
- For questions regarding our programs above, or if you’d like to provide feedback, please contact ODP.Feedback@fda.hhs.gov
- For more information from our OIFSSP subject matter experts, please contact pssdatacalls@fda.hhs.gov
- For media questions, contact FDAOMA@fda.hh.gov. Trade media questions can go to HFPTradePress@fda.hhs.gov.
- For general questions about the Human Foods Program, visit Industry and Consumer Assistance.