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- Federal Register
- Vol. 59, No. 125
- Thursday, June 30, 1994
-
- Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting
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- AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
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- ACTION: Notice.
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- SUMMARY: This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
- committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This notice also
- summarizes the procedures for the meeting and methods by which interested
- persons may participate in open public hearings before FDA's advisory
- committees.
-
- MEETING: The following advisory committee meeting is announced:
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- Joint Meeting of the Gastrointestinal Drugs and the Nonprescription Drugs
- Advisory Committees
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- Date, time, and place. July 27, 1994, 9 a.m., conference rms. D and E,
- Parklawn Bldg., 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD.
-
- Type of meeting and contact person. Open public hearing, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.,
- unless public participation does not last that long; open committee
- discussion, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Joan C. Standaert, Center for Drug
- Evaluation and Research (HFD─180), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers
- Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 419─259─6211, or Lee L. Zwanziger or Valerie M.
- Mealy, 301─443─4695.
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- General function of the committees. The Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory
- Committee reviews and evaluates data on the safety and effectiveness of
- marketed and investigational human drugs for use in gastrointestinal diseases.
- The Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee reviews and evaluates available
- data concerning the safety and effectiveness of over-the-counter
- (nonprescription) human drug products for use in the treatment of a broad
- spectrum of human symptoms and diseases.
-
- Agenda Open public hearing. Interested persons may present data, information,
- or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committees. Those
- desiring to make formal presentations should notify the contact person before
- July 20, 1994, 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 required to
- make their comments.
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- Open committee discussion. The committees will jointly discuss new drug
- application (NDA) 20─238, Tagamet (cimetidine), SmithKline Beecham, for
- treatment of episodic heartburn as an over-the-counter product.
-
- FDA public advisory committee meetings may have as many as four separable
- portions: (1) An open public hearing, (2) an open committee discussion, (3) a
- closed presentation of data, and (4) a closed committee deliberation. Every
- advisory committee meeting shall have an open public hearing portion. Whether
- or not it also includes any of the other three portions will depend upon the
- specific meeting involved. There are no closed portions for the meetings
- announced in this notice. The dates and times reserved for the open portions
- of each committee meeting are listed above.
-
- The open public hearing portion of each meeting shall be at least 1 hour long
- unless public participation does not last that long. It is emphasized,
- however, that the 1 hour time limit for an open public hearing represents a
- minimum rather than a maximum time for public participation, and an open
- public hearing may last for whatever longer period the committee chairperson
- determines will facilitate the committee's work.
-
- Public hearings are subject to FDA's guideline (subpart C of 21 CFR part 10)
- concerning the policy and procedures for electronic media coverage of FDA's
- public administrative proceedings, including hearings before public advisory
- committees under 21 CFR part 14. Under 21 CFR 10.205, representatives of the
- electronic media may be permitted, subject to certain limitations, to
- videotape, film, or otherwise record FDA's public administrative proceedings,
- including presentations by participants.
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- Meetings of advisory committees shall be conducted, insofar as is practical,
- in accordance with the agenda published in this Federal Register notice.
- Changes in the agenda will be announced at the beginning of the open portion
- of a meeting.
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- Any interested person who wishes to be assured of the right to make an oral
- presentation at the open public hearing portion of a meeting shall inform the
- contact person listed above, either orally or in writing, prior to the
- meeting. Any person attending the hearing who does not in advance of the
- meeting request an opportunity to speak will be allowed to make an oral
- presentation at the hearing's conclusion, if time permits, at the
- chairperson's discretion.
-
- The agenda, the questions to be addressed by the committee, and a current list
- of committee members will be available at the meeting location on the day of
- the meeting.
-
- Transcripts of the open portion of the meeting may be requested in writing
- from the Freedom of Information Office (HFI─35), Food and Drug Administration,
- rm. 12A─16, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, approximately 15 working
- days after the meeting, at a cost of 10 cents per page. The transcript may be
- viewed at the Dockets Management Branch (HFA─305), Food and Drug
- Administration, rm. 1─23, 12420 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD 20857,
- approximately 15 working days after the meeting, between the hours of 9 a.m.
- and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Summary minutes of the open portion of the
- meeting may be requested in writing from the Freedom of Information Office
- (address above) beginning approximately 90 days after the meeting.
-
- This notice is issued under section 10(a)(1) and (2) of the Federal Advisory
- Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2), and FDA's regulations (21 CFR part 14) on
- advisory committees.
-
- Dated: June 24, 1994.
-
- Linda A. Suydam,
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- Interim Deputy Commissioner for Operations.
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- [FR Doc. 94─15964 Filed 6─29─94; 8:45 am]
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- BILLING CODE 4160─01─F
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