[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 53338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27142]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Drug Enforcement Administration


Manufacturer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Registration

    By notice dated March 31, 1997, and published in the Federal 
Register on April 29, 1997, (62 FR 23268), Celgene Corporation, 7 
Powder Horn Drive, Warren, New Jersey 07059, made application by letter 
to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be registered as a bulk 
manufacture of methylphenidate (1724) a basic class of controlled 
substance listed in Schedule II.
    DEA has considered the factors in Title 21, United States Code, 
Section 823(a), as well as information provided by other bulk 
manufacturers, and determined that the registration of Celgene 
Corporation to manufacturer methylphenidate is consistent with the 
public interest at this time. Therefore, pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 823 and 
28 CFR 0.100 and 0.104, the Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Diversion Control, hereby orders that the application submitted by the 
above firm for registration as a bulk manufacturer of the basic classes 
of controlled substances listed above is granted.

    Dated: October 3, 1997.
John H. King,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administrator.
[FR Doc. 97-27142 Filed 10-10-97; 8:45 am]
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