Department of Health and Human Services August 17, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that CIBA Vision Corp. has filed three petitions proposing that the color additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of Color Index (C.I.) Pigment Violet 19, C.I. Pigment Yellow 154, and C.I. Pigment Red 122 as color additives in contact lenses.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting nominations for voting consumer representatives to serve on the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee (NMQAAC) in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). FDA has a special interest in ensuring that women, minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are adequately represented on advisory committees and, therefore, encourages nominations of qualified candidates from these groups.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening until September 23, 2005, the comment period for the May 23, 2005, public meeting on the therapeutic equivalence of levothyroxine sodium drug products that was announced in the Federal Register of April 20, 2005 (70 FR 20574). The public meeting included FDA staff and representatives of three medical societies: The American Thyroid Association (ATA), the Endocrine Society, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). FDA is taking this action in response to a request for an extension.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (``the Program''), as required by Section 2112(b)(2) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended. While the Secretary of Health and Human Services is named as the respondent in all proceedings brought by the filing of petitions for compensation under the Program, the United States Court of Federal Claims is charged by statute with responsibility for considering and acting upon the petitions.