[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 99 (Monday, May 23, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29757-29758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12554]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0001]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Health and Diet
Survey
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a
proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by June
22, 2011.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are
received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer,
FAX: 202-395-7285, or e-mailed to [email protected]. All
comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910-0545.
Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denver Presley, Jr., Office of
Information Management, Food and Drug Administration, 1350 Piccard Dr.,
PI50-400B, Rockville, MD 20850, 301-796-3793.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has
submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for
review and clearance.
Health and Diet Survey--(OMB Control Number 0910-0545)--Extension
FDA is seeking extension of OMB approval for the Health and Diet
Survey, which is a voluntary consumer survey intended to gauge and
track consumer attitudes, awareness, knowledge, and behavior regarding
various topics related to health, nutrition, and physical activity. The
authority for FDA to collect the information derives from FDA's
Commissioner of Food and Drugs authority provided in section 903(d)(2)
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 393(d)(2)).
The survey consists of two independent data collection activities.
One collection, entitled ``Health and Diet Survey--General Topics,''
tracks a broad range of consumer attitudes, awareness, knowledge, and
self-reported behaviors related to key diet and health issues. The
other collection, entitled ``Health and Diet Survey--Dietary Guidelines
Supplement,'' will provide FDA with updated information about consumer
attitudes, awareness, knowledge, and behavior regarding various
elements of nutrition and physical activity based on the key
recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are
jointly issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and the
U.S. Department of Agriculture every 5 years.
The information to be collected with the Health and Diet Survey--
General Topics will include: (1) Awareness of diet-disease
relationships, (2) food and dietary supplement label use, (3) dietary
practices including strategies to lose or maintain weight, and (4)
awareness and knowledge of dietary fats. This survey has been repeated
approximately every 3 years over the course of the past several years
for the purpose of tracking changes and trends in public opinions and
consumer behavior, with some new questions added or omitted or
partially modified each iteration in response to current events. In the
next 3 years, FDA plans to field the Health and Diet Survey--General
Topics in 2012 and anticipates that it might have the need for
additional iterations in 2014. The information to be collected with the
Health and Diet Survey--Dietary Guidelines Supplement will include: (1)
Awareness and sources of information, (2) attitudes toward diet and
physical activity, and (3) practice and knowledge related to
recommended behaviors. The survey will also ask about perceptions and
use of Federal nutrition information, special diet, weight status,
health status, and demographics. In the next 3 years, FDA anticipates
to field the Health and Diet Survey--Dietary Guidelines Supplement in
2011-2012.
FDA and other Federal Agencies will use the information from the
Health and Diet Survey to evaluate and develop strategies and programs
to encourage
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and help consumers adopt healthy lifestyles. The information will also
help FDA and other Federal Agencies evaluate and track consumer
awareness and behavior as outcome measures of their achievement in
improving public health.
Description of Respondents: The respondents are adults, age 18 and
older, drawn from the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Participation will be voluntary.
FDA bases its estimate of the number of respondents and the hours
per response on its experience with previous Health and Diet Surveys.
Prior to the administration of the Health and Diet Survey--General
Topics, the Agency plans to conduct a pretest to identify and resolve
potential problems. The pretest will be conducted with 27 participants;
we estimate that it will take a respondent 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to
complete the pretest, for a total of 6.75 hours, rounded to 7. The
Agency will use a screener to select an eligible adult respondent in
each household to participate in the survey. For the Health and Diet
Survey--General Topics data collection activity, a total of 10,000
individuals in the 50 States and the District of Columbia will be
screened by telephone. We estimate that it will take a respondent 1
minute (0.02 hours) to complete the screening, for a total of 200
hours. We estimate that 3,000 eligible adults will participate in the
survey, each taking 15 minutes (0.25 hours), for a total of 750 hours.
For the Health and Diet Survey--Dietary Guidelines Supplement data
collection activity, 4,000 individuals in the 50 States and the
District of Columbia will be screened by telephone. We estimate that it
will take a respondent 1 minute (0.02 hours) to complete the screening
questions, for a total of 80 hours. Of these respondents, 1,200 will
complete the survey. We estimate that it will take a respondent 13
minutes (0.22 hours) to complete the entire survey, for a total of 264
hours. Thus, the total estimated burden is 1,301 hours.
In the Federal Register of January 7, 2011 (76 FR 1168), FDA
published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed
collection of information. FDA received two comments in response to the
30-day notice. The letters contained comments outside the scope of the
four collection of information topics on which the notice solicits
comments and, thus, will not be addressed here.
FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as
follows:
Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\
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Number of Average burden
Activity Number of responses per Total annual per response Total hours
respondents respondent responses (in hours) \2\
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General Topics: Pretest............................................ 27 1 27 15/60 7
General Topics: Screener........................................... 10,000 1 10,000 1/60 200
General Topics: Survey............................................. 3,000 1 3,000 15/60 750
Dietary Guidelines Supplement: Screener............................ 4,000 1 4,000 1/60 80
Dietary Guidelines Supplement: Survey.............................. 1,200 1 1,200 13/60 264
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Total.......................................................... ............... ............... ............... ............... 1,301
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\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.
\2\ Burden estimates of less than 1 hour are expressed as a fraction of an hour in the form ``[number of minutes per response]/60''.
Dated: May 12, 2011.
Leslie Kux,
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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