What is the Memorandum of Agreement signed by FSIS and the Public Health Service?
On April 17, 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Public Health Service (PHS) entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), which significantly expands the number of PHS Commissioned Corps Officers detailed to FSIS. How will FSIS and PHS benefit from this new agreement? This MOA provides a win-win situation for both agencies in the following ways: First, the MOA brings additional resources to fill critical job positions throughout FSIS – ones in which the Agency typically has difficulty in recruiting, such as nurses, medical officers to name a few. The diverse background and skills that the Commissioned Corps Officers bring to FSIS will nicely complement the skills of its current workforce. Second, this agreement allows the Commissioned Corps Officers an opportunity for new tours of duty in another dynamic Federal agency, bringing with that career enhancements, and an attractive pay an
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