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Office of Quality Assessment and Management

Office of Quality Assessment and Management

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 Quality Assessment and Management (OQAM) supports this mission by assessing and monitoring the efficacy and efficiency of programs within the Human Foods Program.

This office comprises:

  • Quality Assessment Staff 1
  • Quality Assessment Staff 2

 What We Do

  • Leads quality initiatives for the Human Foods Program (HFP) and advises the HFP leadership.
  • Evaluate and make fitness-for-use determinations of food safety systems. Make recommendations to the leadership on maximizing domestic and international regulatory partners’ food safety work to increase public health protection.
  • Assess and monitor efficacy and efficiency of the HFP and recommend improvement options.
  • Lead innovative approaches on leveraging the work of external food safety systems to inform risk prioritization in collaboration with other offices in the HFP.

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