[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 184 (Monday, September 23, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58314-58315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23021]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0001]
Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical
Pharmacology; Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will
be open to the public.
Name of Committee: Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science
and Clinical Pharmacology.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and
recommendations to the Agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on October 30, 2013, from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: FDA White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31
Conference Center, the Great Room (Rm. 1503), Silver Spring, MD 20993-
0002. Information regarding special accommodations due to a disability,
visitor parking, and transportation may be accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm; under the heading
``Resources for You,'' click on ``Public Meetings at the FDA White Oak
Campus.'' Please note that visitors to the White Oak Campus must enter
through Building 1.
Contact Person: Kalyani Bhatt, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg.
31, Rm. 2417, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-9001, FAX: 301-847-
8533, email: [email protected], or FDA Advisory Committee Information
Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area). A
notice in the Federal Register about last minute modifications that
impact a previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot always
be published quickly enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, you
should always check the Agency's Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm and scroll down to the appropriate
advisory committee meeting link, or call the advisory committee
information line to learn about possible modifications before coming to
the meeting.
Agenda: There will be two topics presented to the committee for
their
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discussion and consideration. During the first session, the Office of
Pharmaceutical Science and the Office of Compliance will discuss with
the committee the use of statistical methods for the evaluation of
pharmaceutical product quality. The committee will receive
presentations from the Agency on the need for objective metrics of
product quality and some of the available statistical methods used by
other industries in their quality assurance programs. Representatives
from the pharmaceutical industry will provide the manufacturers'
perspective.
During the second session, the committee will receive an update and
status on research activities within the Office of Pharmaceutical
Science supporting regulatory decision making. There will be
presentations from the Office of Generic Drugs, the Office of Testing
and Research, and the Office of Biotechnology Products. This will be an
awareness topic and there will not be formal committee discussion or
recommendation.
FDA intends to make background material available to the public no
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post
the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the
background material will be made publicly available at the location of
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is
available at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee meeting
link.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before
October 16, 2013. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled
between approximately 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Those individuals
interested in making formal oral presentations should notify the
contact person and submit a brief statement of the general nature of
the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses
of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time
requested to make their presentation on or before October 7, 2013. Time
allotted for each presentation may be limited. If the number of
registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably
accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may
conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open
public hearing session. The contact person will notify interested
persons regarding their request to speak by October 8, 2013.
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the Agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical
outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Kalyani Bhatt at
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: September 17, 2013.
Jill Hartzler Warner,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Special Medical Programs.
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