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Download as PDF 48174 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 7, 2013 / Notices In the Federal Register of August 29, 2011 (76 FR 53683), FDA announced the availability of the draft guidance entitled ‘‘Oversight of Clinical Investigations: A Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring,’’ dated August 2011, and the public was provided with an opportunity to comment on it until November 28, 2011. FDA carefully considered all of the comments received in developing the final guidance. The final guidance includes clarifications and additional detail on some topics. For example, the final guidance includes additional detail on how to perform risk-based monitoring and examples of monitoring techniques. The final guidance describes strategies for monitoring activities that reflect a modern, risk-based approach that focuses on critical study parameters and relies on a combination of monitoring activities to oversee a study effectively. 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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 17, 2013, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: FDA White Oak Campus, Building 31, the Great Room, White Oak Conference Center (Rm. 1503), 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002. Information regarding special accommodations due to a disability, visitor parking, and transportation may be accessed at: https://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. 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Agenda: The purpose of the meeting on October 17, 2013, is to discuss susceptibility interpretive criteria for systemic antibacterial drugs and for dosing recommendations in product labeling. We will seek input on the role of pharmacokinetic data in setting susceptibility interpretive criteria. We will also discuss revising dosing recommendations in product labeling based on pharmacokinetic data and clinical safety and efficacy data. 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 https://www.fda.gov/ AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/ default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee meeting link. 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If the number of registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably E:\FR\FM\07AUN1.SGM 07AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 7, 2013 / Notices 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 September 25, 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 Diane Goyette at least 7 days in advance of the meeting. FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee meetings. 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However, over the years, because of new information, scientific developments, and emerging technologies, draft guidances were also revised, and reissued or withdrawn.1 Recently, CDER launched an initiative to review draft guidance documents published before 2010 to decide which guidances to withdraw, revise, or finalize with only minor changes. CDER is withdrawing draft guidances that are no longer up to date. CDER is also actively reviewing the draft guidances to determine which ones to either revise or finalize. This notice lists the first group of guidances CDER has identified for withdrawal, describes generally what guidances are being reviewed, and describes how CDER will keep the public informed of the guidances that are available with the goal of making the initiative transparent and consistent with the GGP regulation (21 CFR 10.115). II. Withdrawal of Guidances CDER has reviewed many draft guidances published before 2010. 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The guidances identified for withdrawal relate to these topics: • Current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance specific to manufacturing, processing, and dose unit sampling and assessment; • Development of antimicrobial drugs for the treatment of acute bronchitis, bacterial meningitis, bacterial prostatitis, bacterial vaginosis, catheterrelated bloodstream infections, febrile neutropenia, gonorrhea, Lyme disease, streptococcal pharyngitis and tonsillitis, uncomplicated urinary tract infections, and vuvlovaginal candidiasis; • Clinical trials for developing antimicrobial drugs and packaging of 1 When Level 1 guidances are revised, they are usually issued as draft, version 2s, for public input before being issued in final form. When a guidance needs to be withdrawn, a notice is sometimes published in the Federal Register announcing that the guidance has been withdrawn. 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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48174-48175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19036]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0001]


Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee; 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: Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee.
    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 17, 2013, from 8 
a.m. to 5 p.m.
    Location: FDA White Oak Campus, Building 31, the Great Room, White 
Oak Conference Center (Rm. 1503), 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver 
Spring, MD 20993-0002. Information regarding special accommodations due 
to a disability, visitor parking, and transportation may be accessed 
at: https://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: Diane Goyette, 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: AIDAC@fda.hhs.gov, 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 https://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: The purpose of the meeting on October 17, 2013, is to 
discuss susceptibility interpretive criteria for systemic antibacterial 
drugs and for dosing recommendations in product labeling. We will seek 
input on the role of pharmacokinetic data in setting susceptibility 
interpretive criteria. We will also discuss revising dosing 
recommendations in product labeling based on pharmacokinetic data and 
clinical safety and efficacy data.
    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 https://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 2, 2013. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled 
between approximately 1 p.m. and 2:30 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 September 24, 2013. Time allotted 
for each presentation may be limited. If the number of registrants 
requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably

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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 September 25, 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 Diane Goyette 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 https://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: August 1, 2013.
Jill Hartzler Warner,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Special Medical Programs.
[FR Doc. 2013-19036 Filed 8-6-13; 8:45 am]
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