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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN 1
Number of
respondents
21 U.S.C. section
21 U.S.C. 379aa–1(b)(1)—serious adverse event reports
for dietary supplements ....................................................
21 U.S.C. 379aa–1(c)(2)—followup reports of new medical
information ........................................................................
Total ..............................................................................
1 There
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total annual
responses
Average
burden per
response
Total hours
230
12
2,760
2
5,520
58
12
696
1
696
........................
........................
........................
........................
6,216
are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.
Our estimated burden for the
information collection reflects an
annual decrease of 219 hours for
reporting. We attribute this adjustment
to a decrease in the number of reports
we received over the last few years.
This estimate is based on our
experience with similar adverse event
reporting programs and the number of
serious adverse event reports and
followup reports received in the past 3
years. All dietary supplement
manufacturers, packers, or distributors
are subject to serious adverse event
mandatory reporting.
In the past 3 years, we received an
average of 2,760 initial serious adverse
event reports. We also estimated an
average number of firms filing reports to
be 230. Finally, we estimate that it will
take respondents an average of 2 hours
per report to collect information about
a serious adverse event associated with
a dietary supplement and report the
information to us on Form FDA 3500A.
Thus, the estimated burden associated
with submitting initial dietary
supplement serious adverse event
reports is 5,520 hours (2,760 responses
× 2 hours) as shown in row 1 of
table 1.
If a respondent that has submitted a
serious adverse event report receives
new information related to the serious
adverse event within 1 year of
submitting the initial report, the
respondent must provide the new
information to us in a followup report.
We estimate that around 25 percent of
serious adverse event reports related to
dietary supplements will have a
followup report submitted, resulting in
approximately 696 followup reports
submitted annually. Dividing the annual
number of reports among the 230 firms
reporting results in approximately 12
reports for 58 respondents. We estimate
that each followup report will require
an hour to assemble and submit,
including the time needed to copy and
attach the initial serious adverse event
report as recommended in the guidance.
Thus, the estimated burden for followup
reports of new information is 696 hours
(696 responses × 1 hour) as shown in
row 2 of table 1.
TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUAL RECORDKEEPING BURDEN 1
Number of
recordkeepers
21 U.S.C. section
21 U.S.C. 379aa–1(e)(1))—dietary supplement adverse events records.
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1 There
Number of
records per
recordkeeper
1,815
Total annual
records
72
130,680
Average burden per
recordkeeping
Total hours
0.5 (30 minutes) ........
65,340
are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.
Our estimated burden for the
information collection reflects an
annual increase of 2,440 hours for
recordkeeping. We attribute this
adjustment to an increase in the number
of reports we received over the last few
years.
All dietary supplement
manufacturers, packers, or distributors
are subject to serious adverse event
recordkeeping. We estimate that there
are 1,815 such respondents. Estimating
that each recordkeeper will keep
approximately 72 records per year
results in an annual burden of 130,680
records. Estimating that assembling and
filing these records, including any
necessary photocopying, will take
approximately 30 minutes, or 0.5 hour,
per record, results in an annual burden
of 65,340 hours (130,680 records × 0.5
hour).
Once the documents pertaining to an
adverse event report have been
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assembled and filed in accordance with
the safety reporting portal, we expect
the records retention burden to be
minimal, as we believe most
establishments would normally keep
this kind of record for at least several
years after receiving the report, as a
matter of usual and customary business
practice.
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA–2018–D–3103]
Good Review Management Principles
and Practices for New Drug
Applications and Biologics License
Applications; Draft Guidance for
Industry and Review Staff; Availability
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Applications.’’ This draft guidance
describes the fundamental values and
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operational principles that serve as the
foundation for the review process. It
also clarifies the roles and
responsibilities of review staff and
identifies ways in which applicants may
support a robust and efficient review
process. This draft guidance revises the
guidance for review staff and industry
entitled ‘‘Good Review Management
Principles and Practices for PDUFA
Products’’ issued April 2005.
DATES: Submit either electronic or
written comments on the draft guidance
by December 24, 2018 to ensure that the
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Send one self-addressed adhesive label
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Pinakini Patel, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, Food and
Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 22, Rm. 6367,
Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301–
796–7475; or Stephen Ripley, 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 guidance for industry and review
staff entitled ‘‘Good Review
Management Principles and Practices
for New Drug Applications and
Biologics License Applications.’’ This
draft guidance describes good review
management principles and practices
(GRMPs) for the review of a new drug
application (NDA), biologics license
application (BLA), or an efficacy
supplement/supplement with clinical
data. This guidance applies to human
drug applications (as defined in section
735(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C.
379g(1))) and biosimilar biological
product applications (section 744G(4) of
the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 379j–51(4))).
This guidance also discusses the roles
and responsibilities of review staff in
managing the review process and
identifies ways in which applicants may
support an efficient and robust review
process.
This draft guidance revises the
guidance for review staff and industry
entitled ‘‘Good Review Management
Principles and Practices for PDUFA
Products’’ issued in April 2005. FDA
committed to updating the 2005
guidance as part of the Prescription
Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VI and
Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) II.
This draft guidance meets that
commitment by reflecting advances in
the PDUFA program and
implementation of BsUFA. This draft
guidance also reflects the evolution of
GRMPs to support new regulatory
programs such as breakthrough therapy,
the Program for Enhanced Review
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Transparency and Communication for
NME (New Molecular Entity) NDAs and
Original BLAs, and risk evaluation and
mitigation strategies.
In addition, the draft guidance has
been consolidated to focus on the
fundamental values and operational
principles that serve as the foundation
for the GRMPs. Details of the review
process are covered in other documents
referenced by this guidance.
Fundamental values and operational
principles should remain relatively
constant over time, while processes
must be able to adapt and respond to
scientific advances in product
development and evolving public health
needs.
This draft guidance is being issued
consistent with FDA’s good guidance
practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115).
The draft guidance, when finalized, will
represent the current thinking of FDA
on GRMPs for NDAs and BLAs. It does
not establish any rights for any person
and is not binding on FDA or the public.
You can use an alternative approach if
it satisfies the requirements of the
applicable statutes and regulations. This
guidance is not subject to Executive
Order 12866.
II. Electronic Access
Persons with access to the internet
may obtain the draft guidance at https://
www.fda.gov/Drugs/Guidance
ComplianceRegulatoryInformation/
Guidances/default.htm, https://
www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/
GuidanceComplianceRegulatory
Information/default.htm, or https://
www.regulations.gov.
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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[Docket No. FDA–2018–N–0007]
Fee for Using a Tropical Disease
Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year
2019
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HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA or the Agency) is
announcing the fee rates for using a
tropical disease priority review voucher
for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C
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6 months after the receipt or filing date,
depending upon the type of application.
Information regarding the PDUFA goals
is available at: https://www.fda.gov/
downloads/forindustry/userfees/
prescriptiondruguserfee/
ucm511438.pdf.
The applicant that uses a priority
review voucher is entitled to a priority
review but must pay FDA a priority
review user fee in addition to any other
fee required by PDUFA. FDA published
guidance on its website about how this
tropical disease priority review voucher
program operates (available at: https://
www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/
GuidanceComplianceRegulatory
Information/Guidances/
ucm080599.pdf).
This notice establishes the tropical
disease priority review fee rate for FY
2019 as $2,457,140 and outlines FDA’s
process for implementing the collection
of the priority review user fees. This rate
is effective on October 1, 2018, and will
remain in effect through September 30,
2019, for applications submitted with a
tropical disease priority review voucher.
The payment of this priority review user
fee is required in addition to the
payment of any other fee that would
normally apply to such an application
under PDUFA before FDA will consider
the application complete and acceptable
for filing.
Section 1102 of FDAAA (Pub. L. 110–
85) added section 524 to the FD&C Act
(21 U.S.C. 360n). In section 524,
Congress encouraged development of
new drug and biological products for
prevention and treatment of tropical
diseases by offering additional
incentives for obtaining FDA approval
of such products. Under section 524, the
applicant of an eligible human drug
application submitted after September
27, 2007, for a tropical disease (as
defined in section 524(a)(3) of the FD&C
Act) shall receive a priority review
voucher upon approval of the tropical
disease product application (assuming
other criteria are met). The recipient of
a tropical disease priority review
voucher may either use the voucher
with a future submission to FDA under
section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act (21
U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or section 351(a) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
262), or transfer (including by sale) the
voucher to another party. The voucher
may be transferred (including by sale)
repeatedly until it ultimately is used for
a human drug application submitted to
FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the
FD&C Act or section 351(a) of the Public
Health Service Act. A priority review is
a review conducted with a Prescription
Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of
II. Tropical Disease Priority Review
User Fee for FY 2019
FDA interprets section 524(c)(2) of the
FD&C Act as requiring that FDA
determine the amount of the tropical
disease priority review user fee each
fiscal year based on the difference
between the average cost incurred by
FDA in the review of a human drug
application subject to priority review in
the previous fiscal year and the average
cost incurred by FDA in the review of
a human drug application that is not
subject to priority review in the
previous fiscal year.
A priority review is a review
conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6
months after the receipt or filing date,
depending on the type of application.
Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has
committed to reviewing and acting on
90 percent of the applications granted
priority review status within this
expedited timeframe. Normally, an
application for a human drug or
biological product will qualify for
priority review if the product is
intended to treat a serious condition
and, if approved, would provide a
significant improvement in safety or
effectiveness. An application that does
not receive a priority designation
receives a standard review. Under the
Act), as amended by the Food and Drug
Administration Amendments Act of
2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to
determine and collect priority review
user fees for certain applications for
review of drug or biological products
when those applications use a tropical
disease priority review voucher. These
vouchers are awarded to the applicants
of certain tropical disease product
applications, submitted after September
27, 2007, upon FDA approval of such
applications. The amount of the fee
submitted to FDA with applications
using a tropical disease priority review
voucher is determined each fiscal year
based on the difference between the
average cost incurred by FDA to review
a human drug application designated as
priority review in the previous fiscal
year and the average cost incurred in the
review of an application that is not
subject to priority review in the
previous fiscal year. This notice
establishes the tropical disease priority
review fee rate for FY 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lola Olajide, Office of Financial
Management, Food and Drug
Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd.,
COLE–14541B, Silver Spring, MD
20993–0002, 240–402–4244.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2018-D-3103]
Good Review Management Principles and Practices for New Drug
Applications and Biologics License Applications; Draft Guidance for
Industry and Review Staff; Availability
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing
the availability of a draft guidance for industry and review staff
entitled ``Good Review Management Principles and Practices for New Drug
Applications and Biologics License Applications.'' This draft guidance
describes the fundamental values and
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operational principles that serve as the foundation for the review
process. It also clarifies the roles and responsibilities of review
staff and identifies ways in which applicants may support a robust and
efficient review process. This draft guidance revises the guidance for
review staff and industry entitled ``Good Review Management Principles
and Practices for PDUFA Products'' issued April 2005.
DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the draft
guidance by December 24, 2018 to ensure that the Agency considers your
comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final
version of the guidance.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on any guidance at any time as
follows:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2018-D-3103 for ``Good Review Management Principles and Practices
for New Drug Applications and Biologics License Applications.''
Received comments will be placed in the docket and, except for those
submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The Agency will
review this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in
its consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the
claimed confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be
available for public viewing and posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
Submit both copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish
your name and contact information to be made publicly available, you
can provide this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of
your comments and you must identify this information as
``confidential.'' Any information marked as ``confidential'' will not
be disclosed except in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other
applicable disclosure law. For more information about FDA's posting of
comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or
access the information at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
You may submit comments on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR
10.115(g)(5)).
Submit written requests for single copies of the draft guidance to
the Division of Drug Information, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10001 New Hampshire Ave.,
Hillandale Building, 4th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, or Office
of Communication, Outreach, and Development, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, 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 that office in processing
your requests. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic
access to the draft guidance document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pinakini Patel, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 22, Rm. 6367, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-
796-7475; or Stephen Ripley, 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 guidance for industry
and review staff entitled ``Good Review Management Principles and
Practices for New Drug Applications and Biologics License
Applications.'' This draft guidance describes good review management
principles and practices (GRMPs) for the review of a new drug
application (NDA), biologics license application (BLA), or an efficacy
supplement/supplement with clinical data. This guidance applies to
human drug applications (as defined in section 735(1) of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 379g(1))) and
biosimilar biological product applications (section 744G(4) of the FD&C
Act (21 U.S.C. 379j-51(4))). This guidance also discusses the roles and
responsibilities of review staff in managing the review process and
identifies ways in which applicants may support an efficient and robust
review process.
This draft guidance revises the guidance for review staff and
industry entitled ``Good Review Management Principles and Practices for
PDUFA Products'' issued in April 2005. FDA committed to updating the
2005 guidance as part of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VI
and Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) II. This draft guidance meets that
commitment by reflecting advances in the PDUFA program and
implementation of BsUFA. This draft guidance also reflects the
evolution of GRMPs to support new regulatory programs such as
breakthrough therapy, the Program for Enhanced Review
[[Page 48437]]
Transparency and Communication for NME (New Molecular Entity) NDAs and
Original BLAs, and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies.
In addition, the draft guidance has been consolidated to focus on
the fundamental values and operational principles that serve as the
foundation for the GRMPs. Details of the review process are covered in
other documents referenced by this guidance. Fundamental values and
operational principles should remain relatively constant over time,
while processes must be able to adapt and respond to scientific
advances in product development and evolving public health needs.
This draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good
guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when
finalized, will represent the current thinking of FDA on GRMPs for NDAs
and BLAs. It does not establish any rights for any person and is not
binding on FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if it
satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations.
This guidance is not subject to Executive Order 12866.
II. Electronic Access
Persons with access to the internet may obtain the draft guidance
at https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/default.htm, https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/default.htm, or https://www.regulations.gov.
Dated: September 19, 2018.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2018-20789 Filed 9-24-18; 8:45 am]
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