Department of Health and Human Services January 18, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the Federal Register of September 2, 2004, a direct final rule to incorporate exemptions one, two, and three of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into FDA's public information regulations. The purpose was to implement more comprehensively the exemptions contained in FOIA. The comment period closed November 16, 2004. FDA is withdrawing the direct final rule because the agency received significant adverse comment.