Document ID: FDA-2012-N-0012-0002
Agency: fda
Document Type: Notice
Title: Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Posted Date: 2013-01-29T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6111-6112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-01815]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2012-N-0012]

Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Foods has 
modified its structure and reorganized to the Office of Foods and 
Veterinary Medicine (OFVM). This new organizational structure was 
approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on July 20, 
2012, and implemented on October 1, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Erik Mettler, Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug 
Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993, 301-
796-4500.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Summary

    Part D, Chapter D-B (Food and Drug Administration), Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the 
Department of Health and Human Services (35 FR 3685, February 25, 1970; 
60 FR 56605, November 9, 1995; 64 FR 36361, July 6, 1999; 72 FR 50112, 
August 30, 2007; 74 FR 41713, August 18, 2009; and 76 FR 45270, July 
28, 2011) is amended in recognition of the fact that most of the work 
of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Center for 
Veterinary Medicine affects the food system as a whole and requires an 
integrated approach, FDA has modified the Office of Foods structure and 
reorganized to the OFVM. This reorganization will allow for effective 
implementation of the new, risk-based mandates of the FDA Food Safety 
Modernization Act (Pub. L. 111-353) and the demand the law places on 
FDA for an integrated implementation

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effort and a systematic approach to risk-based priority setting and 
resource allocation. This reorganization is explained in Staff Manual 
Guides 1160.1, 1160.10, 1160.20, 1230.1, and 1241.1.
    The Food and Drug Administration, OVFM has been restructured as 
follows:
    DJJ. ORGANIZATION--OVFM is headed by the Deputy Commissioner for 
Foods and Veterinary Medicine and includes the following organizational 
units:

Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine
Communications and Public Engagement Staff
Executive Secretariat Staff
Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network
Prevention Staff
Response Staff
Office of Resource Planning and Strategic Management
Strategic Planning and Budget Formulation Staff
Risk Analytics Staff
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Center for Veterinary Medicine

II. Delegations of Authority

    Pending further delegation, directives, or orders by the 
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, all delegations and redelegations of 
authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational 
components will continue in them or their successors pending further 
redelegations, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.

III. Electronic Access

    Persons interested in seeing the complete Staff Manual Guide can 
find it on FDA's Web site at: http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/StaffManualGuides/default.htm.

    Dated: January 24, 2013.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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