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                Domestic Mutual Reliance

Domestic Mutual Reliance

                        Domestic Mutual Reliance Benefits for Industry and Consumers
          FDA and State Counterparts
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 1
          Domestic Mutual  Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 2
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 3
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 4
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 5
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 6
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 1
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          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 3
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 4
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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 recallsAdditional Resources

Arkansas Department of Health
	Arkansas Board of Pharmacy
	Arkansas Food Safety ResourcesOklahoma

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 StandardsAdditional Resources:

Oklahoma State Department of Health
	Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and ForestryTexas

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 StandardsAdditional Resources:

Texas Health and Human Services
	Texas Department of State Health Services
	Office of Texas State Chemist

                                                                                  Content current as of:
      03/18/2022Domestic Mutual Reliance

          
                        Domestic Mutual Reliance Benefits for Industry and Consumers
          FDA and State Counterparts
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 1
          Domestic Mutual  Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 2
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 3
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 4
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 5
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food East Division 6
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 1
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 2
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 3
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 4
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 5
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Human and Animal Food West Division 6
          Domestic Mutual Reliance Work in Division of West Coast Imports (DWCI)
 
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