Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 3
The Division of Human and Animal Food West 3 (HAFW3) encompasses Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. State counterparts perform contract inspections in both human and animal food facilities.
For more information on Rapid Response Teams, Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards, and other programs, please see FDA and State Counterparts.
Arkansas
The FDA engages with Arkansas Department of Health to perform contract inspections. The FDA relies on the state’s expertise in current good manufacturing practices and preventive controls inspections in the human food program area. State employees enter and inspect under FDA authority, thus maintaining federal credentials or certificates of commissioning.
Areas of Collaboration
- Joint inspections of facilities when needed
- Utilizing state inspectional data to assist with casework performed
- Inventory and operational status requests
- Sharing compliance activities
- Work planning sessions
- Rapid Response Team
- Regulatory meetings with the state and the division’s compliance branch to discuss non-compliance of firms and bring firms into voluntary compliance
- On-the-job training for state inspectors
- Regulated industry information sharing
- Product recalls
Additional Resources
Oklahoma
The FDA engages with Oklahoma Department of Health to perform contract inspections. The FDA relies on the state’s expertise in current good manufacturing practices and preventive controls inspections in the human food program area. The FDA does not have a contract for fiscal year 2022 with Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODA) but relies on them to perform Part 507 GMP, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and veterinary feed directive inspections in the animal food program area. The FDA engages with ODA in sharing compliance activities for awareness and usage as needed and to coordinate any outbreaks for public health protection. State animal food employees enter and inspect under FDA authority, thus maintaining federal credentials. The FDA coordinates animal food safety inspection resources and promotes an animal food safety culture with the state. ODA may renew its contract for fiscal year 2023. The FDA relies on the state’s expertise in current good manufacturing practices.
Areas of Collaboration
- Work planning sessions
- Sharing compliance activities
- Joint inspections of facilities when needed
- Regulatory meetings with the state and the division’s compliance branch to discuss non-compliance of firms and bring firms into voluntary compliance
- On-the-job training for state inspectors
- Regulated industry information sharing
- Annual meetings
- Regulatory guidance
- Inventory and operational status requests
- Field staff training
- Industry and consumer education
- Investigation of outbreaks and complaints
- Product recall oversight and effectiveness/audit checks
- Animal Food Contract Inspection Program
- Human Food Inspection Contract Inspection Program
- Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards
- Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards
Additional Resources:
Texas
The FDA engages with Texas Department of State Health Services, and Office of the Texas State Chemist (OTSC) to perform contract inspections. The FDA relies on the state’s expertise in current good manufacturing practices, and preventive controls inspections in the human food program area. State employees enter and inspect under their authority for human food inspections. OTSC performs Part 507 good manufacturing processes, full preventive controls, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and veterinary feed directive inspections in the animal food program area. State animal food employees enter and inspect under FDA authority, thus maintaining federal credentials.
Areas of Collaboration
- Work planning sessions
- Data exchange/information sharing
- Sharing compliance activities
- Joint inspections of facilities when needed
- Food Safety Task Force
- Regulatory meetings with the state and the division’s compliance branch to discuss non-compliance of firms and bring firms into voluntary compliance
- On-the-job training for state inspectors
- Regulated industry information sharing
- Roundtable discussions including academia discussing new and emerging trends & challenges
- Rapid Response Team
- Annual meetings
- Regulatory guidance
- Inventory and operational status requests
- Field staff training
- Industry and consumer education
- Sample collection and laboratory capacity, analysis, and reporting
- Investigation of outbreaks and complaints
- Product recall oversight and effectiveness/audit checks
- Animal Food Contract Inspection Program
- Human Food Inspection Contract Inspection Program
- Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards
- Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards
Additional Resources:
- Texas Health and Human Services
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Office of Texas State Chemist