FDA Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program Strategic Plan 2012 – 2016

The FDA Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program Strategic Plan 2012 – 2016 is a national cross-sectoral strategic plan of the United States of America. Its main vision is to protect consumers and promote the public health by safeguarding America’s food supply and enabling consumers to choose healthy diets.
More specifically, it aims to improve management and program effectiveness and make optimal use of all FVM Program resources; develop and implement an evidence‐based resource planning model that connects performance measures and outputs to public health outcomes; develop and apply public health metrics and goals for risk‐based food safety priority setting; establish a process and management structure to enhance risk‐based decision making throughout the FVM Program; establish science-based preventive control standards across the farm-to-table continuum; adopt science‐based regulations that protect the food and feed supplies from contamination; provide clear and current direction to industry to ensure effective implementation of preventive control standards; evaluate and improve the effectiveness of preventive control standards; achieve high rates of compliance with preventive control standards domestically and internationally; improve FVM Program intelligence on industry and the supply chain; conduct domestic inspections to verify compliance with standards; improve assurance that imported foods and feeds meet preventive control standards; effectively implement new and existing enforcement tools; improve the collaboration among CFSAN, CVM and ORA headquarters and field staff, as well as with Federal, State, local, tribal and territorial partners on inspection and compliance efforts; strengthen scientific leadership, capacity, and partnership to support public health and animal health decision making; establish and implement centralized planning and performance measurement processes; improve information sharing internally and externally; maintain and strengthen mission‐critical science capabilities; cultivate expert institutional knowledge; provide accurate and useful information so consumers can choose a healthier diet and reduce the risk of chronic disease and obesity; update the Nutrition Facts label; implement menu and vending machine labeling regulations; improve consumer access to and use of nutrition information; encourage food product reformulation and safe production of dietary supplements; reduce sodium content in the food supply; reduce industrially produced trans fat in the food supply; improve the safety of dietary supplement products and the supply chain; improve detection of and response to foodborne outbreaks and contamination incidents; improve response to foodborne outbreaks and contamination incidents; investigate and adopt innovative technologies and processes to detect and investigate foodborne outbreaks and contamination events; enhance implementation of the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), including response strategies; conduct effective risk communications related to outbreaks and contamination incidents; advance animal drug safety and effectiveness; increase access to safe and effective animal drugs and reduce risk of harm from unsafe use of marketed animal drugs; reduce availability of substandard and illegally marketed animal drugs; and foster the judicious use of medically important antibiotics in food animals to minimize the development of antimicrobial resistance.