---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 379dd–2"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "379dd–2"
heading: "Activities of the Food and Drug Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/379dd-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter VII — General Authority"
  - "Part I — Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration"
---

# §379dd–2. Activities of the Food and Drug Administration

- (a) **In general—** The [Commissioner](/usc/21/321.md?p=ee) shall receive and assess the report submitted to the [Commissioner](/usc/21/321.md?p=ee) by the Executive Director of the Foundation under [section 379dd(l)(2)](/usc/21/379dd.md?p=l-2) of this title.
- (b) **Report to Congress—** Beginning with fiscal year 2009, the [Commissioner](/usc/21/321.md?p=ee) shall submit to Congress an annual report summarizing the incorporation of the information provided by the Foundation in the report described under [section 379dd(l)(2)](/usc/21/379dd.md?p=l-2) of this title and by other recipients of grants, contracts, memoranda of understanding, or cooperative agreements into regulatory and [product](/usc/21/360eee.md?p=13) review activities of the [Food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) and [Drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) Administration.
- (c) **Extramural grants—** The provisions of this part and [section 360bbb–5 of this title](/usc/21/360bbb–5.md) shall have no effect on any grant, contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement between the [Food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) and [Drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) Administration and any other entity entered into before, on, or after September 27, 2007.

## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 772, as added Pub. L. 110–85, title VI, § 601(b), Sept. 27, 2007, 121 Stat. 897.)