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data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="671d839b-afe9-4660-938a-756d2ea118b8" data-langcode="en" title="Office of Microbiological Food Safety" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/landscape_16_9_800_x_450/public/omfs.jpg?itok=yH08QyBa" alt="Office of Microbiological Food Safety" title="Office of Microbiological Food Safety" class="img-responsive"> </div> <hr> <p>Ensuring that food is a vehicle for wellness is the vision of the FDA鈥檚 Human Foods Program. It is our mission to protect and promote the health and wellness of people through science-based approaches to prevent foodborne illness, reduce diet-related chronic disease and ensure chemicals in food are safe.   </p> <p>The <strong>Office of Microbiological Food Safety (OMFS)</strong> supports this mission by working to reduce the burden of pathogen-related foodborne illness.</p> <p>OMFS uses a risk management approach to evaluate and determine priorities that will help reduce the burden of pathogen-related foodborne illness in foods regulated by the FDA, leads the development of risk-based policies, provides regulatory oversight, and recommends research priorities related to microbiological food safety.</p> <p>The office comprises:</p> <ul> <li>Office of Dairy and Seafood Safety</li> <li>Office of Produce Safety</li> <li>Operations Staff</li> </ul> <h2> What We Do</h2> <ul> <li>Develop and implement risk-based microbial food safety policies for human consumption under the <a 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