[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 138 (Friday, July 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42022-42023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16931]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2014-D-0903]
Draft Guidance for Industry: Providing Submissions in Electronic
Format--Postmarketing Safety Reports for Vaccines; Availability
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the
availability of a draft document entitled ``Guidance for Industry:
Providing Submissions in Electronic Format--Postmarketing Safety
Reports for Vaccines'' dated July 2014. The draft guidance document
provides information and recommendations pertaining to the electronic
submission of postmarketing safety reports involving vaccine products
marketed for human use with approved biologics license applications
(BLAs), including individual case safety reports (ICSRs) and
attachments to ICSRs (ICSR attachments), into the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System (VAERS). FDA recently published in the Federal
Register a final rule requiring that certain postmarketing safety
reports for human drug and biological products, including vaccines, be
submitted to FDA in an electronic format that the Agency can process,
review, and archive. The draft guidance, when finalized, is intended to
help applicants required to submit postmarketing safety reports comply
with the final rule. The draft guidance, when finalized, also will
supersede the document entitled ``Guidance for Industry: How to
Complete the Vaccine Adverse Event Report System Form (VAERS-1)'' dated
September 1998.
DATES: Although you can comment on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR
10.115(g)(5)), to ensure that the Agency considers your comment on this
draft guidance before it begins work on the final version of the
guidance, submit either electronic or written comments on the draft
guidance by September 16, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for single copies of the draft
guidance to the Office of Communication, Outreach and Development,
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug
Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 3128, Silver
Spring, MD 20993-0002. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist
the office in processing your requests. The draft guidance may also be
obtained by mail by calling CBER at 1-800-835-4709 or 240-402-7800. See
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic access to the
draft guidance document.
Submit electronic comments on the draft guidance to http://www.regulations.gov. Submit written comments to the Division of Dockets
Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Reilly, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 7301, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 240-
402-7911.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
FDA is announcing the availability of a draft document entitled
``Guidance for Industry: Providing Submissions in Electronic Format--
Postmarketing Safety Reports for Vaccines'' dated July 2014. The draft
guidance provides information and recommendations pertaining to the
electronic submission of postmarketing safety reports involving vaccine
products, including ICSRs and ICSR attachments, into VAERS. The
guidance is applicable to vaccine products marketed for human use with
approved BLAs for which CBER has regulatory responsibility. This
guidance does not apply to any other biologic product.
In the Federal Register of June 10, 2014 (79 FR 33072), FDA
published a final rule requiring that certain postmarketing safety
reports for human drug and biological products, including vaccines, be
submitted to FDA in an electronic format that the Agency can process,
review, and archive. The draft guidance, when finalized, is intended to
help applicants subject to postmarketing safety reporting requirements
comply with the final rule. Along with other information, the draft
guidance provides updated information about the following: (1) Options
for submitting ICSRs and ICSR attachments, as well as other
postmarketing safety reports to FDA in electronic format, (2) the
notification sent to submitters when FDA has received the electronic
postmarketing safety report, and (3) procedures for requesting
temporary waivers from the electronic submission requirement. The draft
guidance, when finalized, also will supersede the document entitled
``Guidance for Industry: How to Complete the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System Form (VAERS-1)'' dated September 1998.
The draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good
guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when
finalized, will represent FDA's current thinking on this topic. It does
not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not
operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used
if such approach satisfies the requirement of the applicable statutes
and regulations.
II. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
The information collection resulting from this draft guidance is
covered by the information collection provisions of the June 10, 2014,
final rule entitled ``Postmarketing Safety Reports for Human Drug and
Biological Products; Electronic Submission Requirements.'' The
information collection provisions of the final rule have been submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, as required
under section 3507(d) of the Paperwork Reduction Act. Prior to the
effective date of the final rule, FDA will publish a notice in the
Federal Register announcing OMB's decision to approve, modify, or
disapprove the information collection provisions in the final rule. An
Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
III. Comments
The draft guidance is being distributed for comment purposes only
and is not intended for implementation at this time. Interested persons
may submit either electronic comments regarding this document to http://www.regulations.gov or written comments to the Division of Dockets
Management (see ADDRESSES). It is only necessary to send one set of
comments. Identify comments with the docket number found in brackets in
the heading of this document. Received comments may be seen in the
Division of Dockets Management between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, and will be posted to the docket at http://www.regulations.gov.
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IV. Electronic Access
Persons with access to the Internet may obtain the draft guidance
at either http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/default.htm or http://www.regulations.gov.
Dated: July 14, 2014.
Peter Lurie,
Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning.
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