Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is an agency within the Food and Drug Administration responsible for developing and overseeing enforcement of food safety and quality regulations. CFSAN coordinates surveillance and compliance with FDA and other states’ surveillance and compliance programs. The FDA’s roughly 800 field inspectors (located administratively within FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs) enforce CFSAN’s food safety regulations at 53,000 processing facilities.[1]

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1. ↑ USDA Index