In June 2000, the Department of Health
and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommended
that FDA improve its oversight of food firm inspections conducted
by States through contracts. Consequently, FDA developed the
Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Standards (program standards),
which establish a uniform foundation for the design and management
of a State program that is responsible for the regulatory oversight
of food plants that manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods in
the United States. Achieving conformance with these program
standards requires comprehensive self-assessment of the State
program. Each standard has corresponding self-assessment
worksheets, and certain standards have supplemental worksheets and
forms that will assist the State programs in determining their
level of conformance with the standard. The State program is not
required to use the forms and worksheets for the standard; however,
alternative forms should be equivalent to the forms and worksheets
in the program standards. FDA needs the data from the forms and
worksheets to assess the State program's conformance with the
program standards and to improve contracts with State agencies.
Ultimately, the program standards will assist both FDA and the
States in fulfilling their regulatory obligations.
This new program will cut
redundancy, because the program standards will help both FDA and
the State food inspection programs focus their oversight of food
firms thereby significantly reducing overlap of inspection and
compliance activities
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