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About ORA: Organization Overview
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Overview of the Office of Regulatory Affairs

Last Update: March 8, 2005

 Map showing the 5 ORA regions in the United States, select the image to jump to the ORA directory listing in the IOM 
 

Organization Overview

The Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) is the lead office for all Field activities of the Food and Drug Administration. The map above shows the regions of the organization (note: the "Midwest" and "Midatlantic" regions were merged into a "Central Region".) The duties and functions of the Office and components of ORA can be viewed by clicking on the component name in the list below. The offices that report directly to ORA are shown here in UPPER CASE. Divisions within each office are in lower case. The letter-number combinations "HFC-xx" are mail routing symbols.

OFFICE OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS (HFC-1)

OFFICE OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HFC-10)

Division of Management Operations (HFC-20)

Division of Information Systems (HFC-30)

Division of Planning, Evaluation, & Management (HFC-40)

Division of Human Resource Development (HFC-60)

OFFICE OF REGIONAL OPERATIONS (HFC-100)

Division of Field Investigations (HFC-130)

Division of Field Science (HFC-140)

Division of Federal - State Relations (HFC-150)

Division of Import Operations (HFC-170)

OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT (HFC-200)

Division of Compliance Management & Operations (HFC-210)

Division of Compliance Policy HFC-230)

Division of Compliance Information and Quality Assurance (HFC-240)

OFFICE OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

REGIONAL & DISTRICT OFFICE CONTACTS
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